TST August 2014 On some distros / versions, udev rules for MARS are needed. Without any udev rules, /dev/mars/mydata is created with the sticky bit set. As a result, the device will not vanish when leaving primary state. In turn, some commands like "marsadm secondary" will complain about that by means of timeouts. On other distros / versions, catch-all rules are present which _would_ prevent the sticky bit problem. However, some syntax errors prevent this. This directory contains distro- and version-dependent stuff. I did not have the time to fully analyze all distros / distro versions and their udev rules. Since I am not an expert in writing udev rules (and I just needed a quickfix for my own work), the files in this directoy should be regarded as examples. For example, the file 65-mars.rules should be copied to /lib/udev/rules.d/ on some newer Debian distros. OTOH, some elder Debians don't seem to need this (but may need debian-udev.patch). Distro maintainers should improve on this and/or provide better solutions.