From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1S7NLB-0002Y7-94 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 13 Mar 2012 08:44:21 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 96DA4E0A84; Tue, 13 Mar 2012 08:44:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com (ironport2-out.teksavvy.com [206.248.154.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB89EE09BE for ; Tue, 13 Mar 2012 08:43:36 +0000 (UTC) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AokGAKU/KE9FpZT2/2dsb2JhbACBX48mjVV5iHCeGYYZBJROhkuECQ X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.73,1,1325480400"; d="scan'208";a="167768653" Received: from 69-165-148-246.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO waltdnes.org) ([69.165.148.246]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with SMTP; 13 Mar 2012 04:43:35 -0400 Received: by waltdnes.org (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Tue, 13 Mar 2012 04:43:06 -0400 From: "Walter Dnes" Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2012 04:43:06 -0400 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: newsitem: unmasking udev-181 Message-ID: <20120313084306.GC1197@waltdnes.org> References: <20120311022706.GA26296@linux1> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Archives-Salt: f75f44f9-ad68-421d-a1e2-f0de85b337fc X-Archives-Hash: db4a9913f1e906028e5a950bc3200fc8 On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 09:53:25PM -0500, Rich Freeman wrote > Perhaps a suggestion for the news item. I'd recommend that anybody > who needs an initramfs to mount /usr get that working BEFORE they > upgrade udev. This situation is a heck of a lot easier to figure out > if the system still can be booted when the initramfs doesn't work. Question... does it have to be an initramfs, or can the vast majority of simple cases be handled by a simple initscript in /bin or /sbin that mounts /usr, and does whatever else is required, before handing off control to /sbin/init. I've migrated to mdev, so I won't be seeing this problem, but a simple solution that works for 95% of users might be the way to go. For the more complex situations, an initramfs will be necessary. -- Walter Dnes