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
next prev parent 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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