Re: [bug] /etc/profile: line 30: /dev/null: Permission denied (Was: Re: [PATCH] Remove broken by design and by implementation devtmpfs maintenance disaster)

[Dave Airlie]

>
> Self-contained /dev is great, udev is a total PITA on older distros (on
> this box it sometimes takes 3 minutes for udev to boot ...) so turning
> on devtmpfs and getting something functional in exchange is a big
> selling point IMO.

udev taking 3 minutes usually means you have a kernel driver bug,
udev doesn't have a sleep for 3 minutes, it loads drivers and usually
waits for them to finish. Since someone decided to merge a stupid
floppy PNP match I've seen a lot of floppyless machines hit a 30sec
udev delay. so many that we disabled the pnp floppy on Fedora.

Dave.
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