> Hotplugging devices was the domain of the kernel and udev (and consolekit for user access). The only reason "systemd" does this now is because they replaced c

> Hotplugging devices was the domain of the kernel and udev (and consolekit for user access). The only reason "systemd" does this now is because they replaced consolekit (yay) and absorbed udev (boo). Yeah hotplugging has obviously been available for ages. > You either love or hate the ambiguity of terms like "systemd" Indeed, in this case I was referring to the whole framework and not PID 1. Personally I've been running systemd on my systems since even before Arch Linux incorporated it officially and I've pretty much never had any problems. I especially haven't had any boot related issues with it. I even have multiple luks encrypted disks attached.