On Wed, 2005-07-06 at 15:46 -0700, Greg KH wrote: > To start with, the 061 version of udev offers a big memory savings if > you use the "default" kernel name of a device[3]. If you do that, it does > not create a file in its database in /dev/.udevdb/
So if we were to switch to udev 061 in genkernel, it would shrink memory usage in our initrd/initramfs, provided we made everything use the LSB device names/nodes, versus the devfs ones, correct? > If we can move away from some of our devfs-like names, we stand to > reclaim a lot of memory from everyone's machines. As an example, if we > drop all of the tty/pts/vc/vcc symlinks, and just go with the default > kernel name, we save 2.5Mb of space in tempfs/ramfs. I've done this on > my machines and everything seems to work just fine (it looks like > everything that was trying to use a tty node was just using the symlink > anyway.) > > So, anyone have any objections to me changing the default udev naming > scheme in this manner? None here. Anything that gives us more usable RAM even after we've snatched some for the initrd and for /dev and for the tmpfs of the LiveCD/InstallCD is fine by me. -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering - Strategic Lead/QA Manager Games - Developer Gentoo Linux
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