Devfs is indeed deprecated in favor of udev, and many services start in multiple runlevels. This is perfectly normal for debian/ubuntu, where runlevels aren't handled like you may be used to from redhat/mandrake/fedora.
** Changed in: devfsd (Ubuntu)
Status: Unconfirmed => Rejected
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devfsd in too many runnlevels
https://launchpad.net/bugs/1792
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