On Fri, May 31, 2024 at 11:12:08AM +0200, Didier Kryn wrote:
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>     'mdev -s' is typicaly what you do in the Busybox-based "pre"-init, the
> init which is run out of initramfs.
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>     I do not call this static /dev.

Nor do I.

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>     A static /dev is when all the devices files in /dev are ready made and
> present in /dev before boot, and never change. Another thing is to have /dev
> just not mounted on tmpfs and populating it during the early init.

But for an installer, which ideally should be able to run on any machine,
whatever its disk hardware, it would be quite difficult to have a static /dev.
I could install a static /dev depending on what hardware it finds,
but it itself needs a dynamic /dev to accomodate a wide variety of devices.

-- hendrik