How can i find out if udev works or devfs is still used

Question

Hello!
I'm interrested in running udev instead of devfs, so i used the udev howto from the wiki to change to udev. Now there were no error messages, but how do i know udev is running? /dev/ still seems to look like it looked with /devfs. And ArchLinux bootscreen shows still " Starting devfs deamon ..... [done]".
My lilo.conf looks like this so devfs should be deactivated, or not?
# /etc/lilo.conf
boot=/dev/discs/disc0/disc append="devfs=nomount"
# This line often fixes L40 errors on bootup
# disk=/dev/discs/disc0/disc bios=0x80
bitmap=/boot/arch-lilo.bmp
bmp-colors=1,0,8,3,8,1
bmp-table=185p,140p,1,18
bmp-timer=400p,345p,3,8,1
vga=791
default=WindowsXP
timeout=300
lba32
prompt
#image=/boot/vmlinuz26
# label=failsave
# root=/dev/discs/disc0/part5
# read-only
image=/boot/vmlinuz267bs
label=ArchLinux
root=/dev/discs/disc0/part5
append="video=vesafb:ywrap,mtrr splash=silent"
initrd=/boot/initrd.splash
read-only
other=/dev/discs/disc0/part1
label=WindowsXP
# End of file
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Answer 1

Hmm .... this might be the problem: rc.sysinit seems to be a bootsplash-modified version:
#!/bin/sh
# /etc/rc.sysinit
. /etc/rc.conf
. /etc/rc.d/functions
echo " "
printhl "Arch Linux v0.6 $C_OTHER(${C_H2}Widget$C_OTHER)n"
printhl "${C_H2}http://www.archlinux.org"
printhl "Copyright 2002-2004 Judd Vinet"
printhl "Distributed under the GNU General Public License (GPL)"
printsep
# start up our mini logger until syslog takes over
/sbin/minilogd
# get ready for bootsplash
/bin/mount -n -t proc none /proc
if grep -qs silent /proc/splash; then
BOOTSPLASH_NUMBER=$((`echo ${DAEMONS[@]} | sed 's/![^ t]*//g' | wc -w` +
`cat /etc/rc.{sysinit,multi,local} | grep -c -e status -e stat_busy`))
BOOTSPLASH_DELTA=$((60000 / $BOOTSPLASH_NUMBER))
BOOTSPLASH_PROGRESS=$((65535 - $BOOTSPLASH_NUMBER * $BOOTSPLASH_DELTA))
[ -w /proc/splash ] && echo "show $BOOTSPLASH_PROGRESS" > /proc/splash
fi
# anything more serious than KERN_WARNING goes to the console
/bin/dmesg -n 3
if [ -e /dev/.devfsd -a -x /sbin/devfsd ]; then
status "Starting DevFS Daemon" /sbin/devfsd /dev
fi
if [ "$USELVM" = "yes" -o "$USELVM" = "YES" ]; then
if [ -f /etc/lvmtab -a -x /sbin/vgchange ]; then
# Kernel 2.4.x, LVM1 groups
stat_busy "Activating LVM1 groups"
/sbin/vgchange -a y
stat_done
elif [ -x /sbin/lvm ]; then
# Kernel 2.6.x, LVM2 groups
/bin/mount -n -t sysfs none /sys
stat_busy "Activating LVM2 groups"
/sbin/lvm vgchange --ignorelockingfailure -a y
stat_done
umount /sys
fi
fi
status "Activating Swap" /sbin/swapon -a
status "Mounting Root Read-only" /bin/mount -n -o remount,ro /
if [ -x /sbin/fsck ]; then
stat_busy "Checking Filesystems"
/sbin/fsck -A -T -C -a
if [ $? -gt 1 ]; then
stat_fail
echo
echo "***************** FILESYSTEM CHECK FAILED ****************"
echo "* *"
echo "* Please repair manually and reboot. Note that the root *"
echo "* file system is currently mounted read-only. To remount *"
echo "* it read-write type: mount -n -o remount,rw / *"
echo "* When you exit the maintenance shell the system will *"
echo "* reboot automatically. *"
echo "* *"
echo "************************************************************"
echo
/sbin/sulogin -p
echo "Automatic reboot in progress..."
/bin/umount -a
/bin/mount -n -o remount,ro /
/sbin/reboot -f
exit 0
fi
stat_done
fi
stat_busy "Mounting Local Filesystems"
/bin/umount /proc
/bin/mount -n -o remount,rw /
/bin/rm -f /etc/mtab*
/bin/mount /proc
/bin/mount -a -t nonfs,nosmbfs,noncpfs
stat_done
stat_busy "Configuring System Clock"
if [ "$HARDWARECLOCK" = "UTC" ]; then
/sbin/hwclock --utc --hctosys
else
/sbin/hwclock --localtime --hctosys
fi
if [ ! -f /var/lib/hwclock/adjtime ]; then
echo "0.0 0 0.0" > /var/lib/hwclock/adjtime
fi
if [ "$TIMEZONE" != "" ]; then
/bin/ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/$TIMEZONE /etc/localtime
fi
stat_done
stat_busy "Removing Leftover Files"
/bin/rm -f /etc/nologin &> /dev/null
/bin/rm -f /etc/shutdownpid &> /dev/null
/bin/rm -f /var/locks/* &> /dev/null
/bin/rm -f /var/run/*.pid &> /dev/null
/bin/rm -f /var/run/daemons/* &>/dev/null
/bin/rm -rf /tmp/* /tmp/.* &> /dev/null
: > /var/run/utmp
stat_done
status "Updating Shared Library Links" /sbin/ldconfig
if [ "$HOSTNAME" != "" ]; then
status "Setting Hostname: $HOSTNAME" /bin/hostname $HOSTNAME
fi
kernel_version=`uname -r`
if [ -e "/lib/modules/$kernel_version/modules.dep" ]; then
new_mods=`/usr/bin/find /lib/modules/$kernel_version -type f -newer /lib/modules/$kernel_version/modules.dep`
if [ ! -z "$new_mods" ]; then
status "Updating Module Dependencies" /sbin/depmod -a
fi
else
status "Updating Module Dependencies" /sbin/depmod -a
fi
if [ -f /var/run/random-seed ]; then
stat_busy "Initializing Random Seed"
/bin/cat /var/run/random-seed >/dev/urandom
stat_done
fi
if [ "$KEYMAP" != "" ]; then
status "Loading Keyboard Map: $KEYMAP" /bin/loadkeys -q $KEYMAP
fi
if [ "$CONSOLEFONT" != "" ]; then
stat_busy "Loading Console Font: $CONSOLEFONT"
for i in `seq 1 12`; do
/usr/bin/setfont $CONSOLEFONT -C /dev/vc/${i};
done
stat_done
fi
# Load modules from the MODULES array defined in rc.conf
stat_busy "Loading Modules"
for mod in "${MODULES[@]}"; do
if [[ `echo $mod | grep '^[^!]' | wc -l` -eq 1 ]]; then
/sbin/modprobe $mod
fi
done
stat_done
# Screen blanks after 15 minutes idle time
/usr/bin/setterm -blank 15
# set things up for bootsplash in rc.multi
if [ "$BOOTSPLASH_NUMBER" -a "$BOOTSPLASH_PROGRESS" ]; then
let "BOOTSPLASH_NUMBER -= `grep -c -e status -e stat_busy /etc/rc.sysinit`"
BOOTSPLASH_DELTA=$(((65535 - $BOOTSPLASH_PROGRESS) / $BOOTSPLASH_NUMBER))
BOOTSPLASH_PROGRESS=$((65535 - $BOOTSPLASH_NUMBER * $BOOTSPLASH_DELTA))
[ -w /proc/splash ] && echo "show $BOOTSPLASH_PROGRESS" > /proc/splash
echo "export BOOTSPLASH_PROGRESS=$BOOTSPLASH_PROGRESS" > /tmp/bootsplash_env
echo "export BOOTSPLASH_DELTA=$BOOTSPLASH_DELTA" >> /tmp/bootsplash_env
fi
# End of file
Well then i'll stick with devfs. It works.
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