Vdev

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vdev is another device file manager. According to its author, it is intended to strike a balance between the approaches of mdev and udev (or eudev) in terms of how much work the user is required to do.^[1]

Installation

An ebuild for sys-fs/vdev is available from bar-overlay.

FILE /etc/portage/repos.conf/bar.conf

<syntaxhighlight lang="ini">location = /usr/local/overlay/bar
sync-type = git
sync-uri = git://github.com/tokiclover/bar-overlay.git
auto-sync = yes</syntaxhighlight>

root #emaint sync -r bar

Emerge

root #emerge --ask sys-fs/vdev

References

↑ Comment in Gentoo Forums: Discussing vdev from Devuan Project, by judecn, Wed Jan 07, 2015 4:00 am.

External resources

Introducing vdev, at the author's blog

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[1] Comment in Gentoo Forums: Discussing vdev from Devuan Project, by judecn, Wed Jan 07, 2015 4:00 am.