Re: udev in initrd

[Harald Hoyer <harald redhat com>]

Owen Taylor wrote:
> For some reason the udev package we have in rawhide now:
>    
> http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/development/SRPMS/udev-026-4.src.rpm
>
> Seems to fall into the category of "complex rule set full of shell
> scripts" ... in some testing I was doing a while ago, an initial
> run of udev to populate /dev was executing ~3000 processes.
>
> If you have time to take a look at that configuration of udev, I'd be
> interested to know whether you think it's:
>
>  - Just poor configuration of udev to achieve something that could
>    be done much more simply and efficiently.
>
>  - A policy that "pretty much requires" shell scripts. (Not that I can
>    imagine what fixed policy is easier to implement as a rats nest
>    of shell scripts...)
>
> Thanks,
> 						Owen

just install the udev rpm and not the udev-persistent rpm and you have a simple setup