On Sun, Jun 25, 2017 at 10:28:15PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote:
> Wait a minute. This is getting interesting. I seem to hear you saying
> that, until Devuan has vdev, I could replace udev with mdev from
> busybox, but only if I don't use a "full-fledged desktop environment."

As far as I understand, mdev knows only about a subset of devices, and has
no fancy rules implemented by udev; vdev on the other hand tries to do as
much of udev does as reasonably possible.

mdev's purpose is to boot a simple rescue system.

> You're a server guy, whereas I'm a desktop guy who likes to have his
> underlying operating system built like a server. Given my situation, it
> looks to me like I'd need to just replace udev commands with mdev
> commands in a few rc scripts and init scripts. That sound reasonable?

Depends if you want just simple "mount /dev/sda" or some raid on encrypted
lvm. Connected via iSCSI for an extra bonus.


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