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 1S7plM-0007Xi-0g for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 14 Mar 2012 15:05:18 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2C176E08F2; Wed, 14 Mar 2012 15:05:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: from out1-smtp.messagingengine.com (out1-smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.25]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F8E9E063D for ; Wed, 14 Mar 2012 15:04:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: from compute5.internal (compute5.nyi.mail.srv.osa [10.202.2.45]) by gateway1.nyi.mail.srv.osa (Postfix) with ESMTP id C90B6212FA for ; Wed, 14 Mar 2012 11:04:33 -0400 (EDT) Received: from frontend1.nyi.mail.srv.osa ([10.202.2.160]) by compute5.internal (MEProxy); Wed, 14 Mar 2012 11:04:33 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d= messagingengine.com; h=date:from:to:subject:message-id :references:mime-version:content-type:in-reply-to; s=smtpout; bh=FQVeosC8WO/xBlJHBvu9ZQBhvl4=; b=EQHbb6udfM0lyz+vgHvjUe4H92fR oEKcNvHcZEDsTgIl9BzbQRknzGDQIsJL5eCue/l8zXNtC3R4LRsM3SfC3K41hLVx ZbbbDOdmKq6ovyne1OvKhu2Rbo9o/N7O5OjYFnPsVTjD5gspsRmwD4miZ7n3zuyO QXjS2J25yRJkSec= X-Sasl-enc: YV23uVcRjYDGVyq8ZhuKb40zTnus0aFID6CXkztO7+FF 1331737473 Received: from localhost (c-76-121-69-168.hsd1.wa.comcast.net [76.121.69.168]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 5786A8E00A1; Wed, 14 Mar 2012 11:04:33 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2012 08:04:31 -0700 From: Greg KH To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Let's redesign the entire filesystem! Message-ID: <20120314150431.GA2033@kroah.com> References: <4F5C1BE9.3040609@gentoo.org> <20120311173355.GB6599@linux1> <4F5EA152.80604@gentoo.org> <4F5FE34A.4030609@gentoo.org> <4F6091CE.1050009@gentoo.org> <20120314144115.GA30606@kroah.com> <20120314145144.GC3200@ca.inter.net> 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: <20120314145144.GC3200@ca.inter.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Archives-Salt: 5a07b936-f491-4518-8b6e-471306903c20 X-Archives-Hash: 07b426491eb6f06e69eede1fee1f787f On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 10:51:44AM -0400, Philip Webb wrote: > 120314 Greg KH wrote: > > if you have /usr on a different filesystem today, with no initrd, > > your machine could be broken and you don't even know it. > > Whatever do you mean ? -- if it were truly broken, > it wouldn't perform in some important & obvious respect. Not always, no, it isn't obvious that something didn't start up correctly, or that it didn't fully load properly. Some programs later on recover and handle things better. > Do you mean "insecure" ? -- if so, what is the threat ? No threat. > > greg "why is this thread still alive" k-h > > Your dismissive response is perhaps one reason ... Given that this is the first time I've responded to this thread in weeks, I doubt it. People like to complain, that's nothing new, I should be used to it by now, so perhaps it is all my fault... greg k-h