On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 16:13, Doug Ledford <dledford@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-10-27 at 09:22 +0100, martin f krafft wrote:
>> also sprach Neil Brown <neilb@xxxxxxx> [2008.10.26.2356 +0100]:
>> > I'm also wondering if I should include a udev 'rules' file for md
>> > in the mdadm distribution. Obviously it would be no more than
>> > a recommendation, but it might give me a voice in guiding how udev
>> > interacted with mdadm.
>>
>> I would really like to have a clear separation of competencies.
>> Ideally, mdadm never creates any devices but leaves it all to udev,
>> and all configuration about alternate names ("symlinks") is done in
>> the udev rules file.
>
> This would then require that we have a working udev in our initrd
> images. It would greatly increase the complexity of early booting as a
> result.
There is no usual distro not having udev there.
Kay
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