On Fri, Aug 05, 2011 at 07:42:29PM -0500, William Hubbs wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 05, 2011 at 10:06:48PM +0200, Sven Vermeulen wrote:
> > That said, I'm a bit hesitant to describing that we "recommend" it
> > regardless of the situation. What is wrong with describing when? At least
> > inform our users that the udev rules have evolved to more than just "detect
> > and mknod" scripts and that they are now relying on files and binaries
> > available in other locations, like /usr and /var.
>
> It looks like the situation where we will have to have one is if /usr
> and /var are not on the same file system as /, because of how udev has
> evolved.
This isn't always true. I have /usr and /var on separate logical volumes
(and as such, separate file systems) yet I don't use DEVTMPFS nor an
initrd/initramfs, so I'm sure that the answer is a bit more specific.
Wkr,
Sven Vermeulen
