Re: initrd, lvm, and devfs

[Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>]

> In that case, we should probably drop debian-installer altogether, as it
> uses DevFS throughout :-)

Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt in 2.6.11-rc1:

What:   devfs
When:   July 2005
Files:  fs/devfs/*, include/linux/devfs_fs*.h and assorted devfs
        function calls throughout the kernel tree
Why:    It has been unmaintained for a number of years, has unfixable
	function calls throughout the kernel tree
Why:    It has been unmaintained for a number of years, has unfixable
        races, contains a naming policy within the kernel that is
	against the LSB, and can be replaced by using udev.
Who:    Greg Kroah-Hartman <greg@kroah.com>

so unless Debian wants to stay with stoneage kernels you're better of
starting to fix D-I.  That beeing said D-I people have been told
repeatedly that basing an installer on devfs is a bad idea long time
ago, but let's not warm that up again.