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From: Zac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Suggestion for getting rid of udev
Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2011 12:33:51 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E9B319F.9020308@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGfcS_nTsLiCO8zgfVFz7TGLm=+K5wkZi=PowdZ=M=-K_RcpEw@mail.gmail.com>

On 10/16/2011 06:07 AM, Rich Freeman wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 15, 2011 at 6:07 PM, Zac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org> wrote:
>>
>> I don't think it's a good idea for Gentoo to encourage users to have
>> /usr on a separate partition. We should probably remove the separate
>> /usr partition from "Code Listing 2.1: Filesystem usage example" in our
>> handbook:
>>
>> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=1&chap=4#doc_chap2_pre1
>>
> 
> Well, if we want to do that then we should also update:
> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-x86+raid+lvm2-quickinstall.xml
> 
> Of course - that is an initramfs-less configuration, and such a thing
> would be nearly impossible to do with /usr on root unless you
> basically don't put anything of value on the LVM volumes in the first
> place.  You could put everything but /boot on LVM and then use an
> initramfs.  Or, you need to cover mounting /usr, /var, etc from the
> initramfs.
> 
> And I don't think it is a good idea to NOT have a supported RAID/LVM
> configuration.  That is hardly an edge case...

If those LVM volumes require userspace tools to mount, then I think it's
perfectly reasonable to expect them to use either an initramfs or a
simple linuxrc approach [1] to ensure that /usr is mounted before init
starts.

[1]
http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/msg_20749880f5bc5feda141488498729fe8.xml
-- 
Thanks,
Zac



  reply	other threads:[~2011-10-16 19:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 58+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-10-12  4:40 [gentoo-dev] Suggestion for getting rid of udev Walter Dnes
2011-10-12  5:05 ` Zac Medico
2011-10-12 13:10   ` Walter Dnes
2011-10-12  5:32 ` Nathan Phillip Brink
2011-10-12 13:09   ` Walter Dnes
2011-10-12 23:37     ` Nathan Phillip Brink
2011-10-12  7:05 ` Michał Górny
2011-10-12 13:09   ` Walter Dnes
2011-10-12 16:28     ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2011-10-12 17:25     ` Michał Górny
2011-10-12 17:30     ` Nirbheek Chauhan
2011-10-12 17:49       ` Ciaran McCreesh
2011-10-12 17:56         ` Rich Freeman
2011-10-13 15:14         ` Olivier Crête
2011-10-13 15:28           ` Rich Freeman
2011-10-13 16:30             ` Arun Raghavan
2011-10-13 17:02               ` Mike Frysinger
2011-10-13 18:34                 ` Samuli Suominen
2011-10-13 18:55                 ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2011-10-13 18:59                   ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2011-10-13 19:03                   ` Mike Frysinger
2011-10-13 17:05           ` Ciaran McCreesh
2011-10-15  8:42             ` Michael Schreckenbauer
2011-10-15  8:57               ` Wulf C. Krueger
2011-10-15  9:13                 ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2011-10-15  9:23                   ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2011-10-15 22:07                 ` Zac Medico
2011-10-16 12:52                   ` [gentoo-dev] supporting /usr on separate partition (was: Suggestion for getting rid of udev) Ian Stakenvicius
2011-10-16 18:44                     ` [gentoo-dev] supporting /usr on separate partition Zac Medico
2011-10-16 19:36                       ` Graham Murray
2011-10-16 19:40                         ` Michał Górny
2011-10-17 16:02                       ` Ian Stakenvicius
2011-10-17 17:24                         ` Zac Medico
2011-10-17 17:50                           ` Ian Stakenvicius
2011-10-17 17:55                             ` Samuli Suominen
2011-10-17 19:18                               ` Ian Stakenvicius
2011-10-17 20:01                             ` Sven Vermeulen
2011-10-17 20:31                               ` Zac Medico
2011-10-16 13:07                   ` [gentoo-dev] Suggestion for getting rid of udev Rich Freeman
2011-10-16 19:33                     ` Zac Medico [this message]
2011-10-17 20:59                       ` Joost Roeleveld
2011-10-18 18:03                         ` Zac Medico
2011-10-15  4:06           ` Walter Dnes
2011-10-15  7:29             ` Michał Górny
2011-10-15 17:13               ` Mike Frysinger
2011-10-15 20:45               ` Joost Roeleveld
2011-10-15  7:33         ` Michał Górny
2011-10-13 14:12     ` Thomas Kahle
2011-10-15  3:37       ` Walter Dnes
2011-10-15  3:47         ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2011-10-12  7:08 ` Markos Chandras
2011-10-12 13:26 ` Rich Freeman
2011-10-12 19:02   ` Mike Frysinger
2011-10-13  2:16   ` [gentoo-dev] " Duncan
2011-10-13  2:43     ` Rich Freeman
2011-10-13 15:17 ` [gentoo-dev] " Olivier Crête
2011-10-13 15:27   ` Mike Frysinger
2011-10-16 18:06 ` Greg KH

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