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 1RGE1T-0006Nk-8w for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 18 Oct 2011 18:04:19 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id AD45C21C0BB; Tue, 18 Oct 2011 18:04:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5236E21C0A7 for ; Tue, 18 Oct 2011 18:03:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [10.151.200.224] (staff-wireless.saddleback.edu [209.129.85.50]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: zmedico) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id CB1AC1B4003 for ; Tue, 18 Oct 2011 18:03:20 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <4E9DBF59.3000800@gentoo.org> Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2011 11:03:05 -0700 From: Zac Medico User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:7.0.1) Gecko/20111001 Thunderbird/7.0.1 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 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Suggestion for getting rid of udev References: <20111012044023.GA8203@waltdnes.org> <4E9B319F.9020308@gentoo.org> <1383405.X2oY6bobqg@eve> In-Reply-To: <1383405.X2oY6bobqg@eve> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.4a1pre Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: ea57a23e101d8765f4e13eb22fa7dc45 On 10/17/2011 01:59 PM, Joost Roeleveld wrote: > On Sunday, October 16, 2011 12:33:51 PM Zac Medico wrote: >> 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 > > If this approach works, would it be an option to add this to the LVM [1] and > RAID+LVM [2] pages? You can use a linuxrc instead of an initramfs as long as your root filesystem can be mounted automatically via kernel parameters, and that root filesystem contains the necessary userspace tools (like busybox and lvm) to mount everthing else that's required to be mounted before init starts. > [1] > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/lvm2.xml > > [2] > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-x86+raid+lvm2-quickinstall.xml -- Thanks, Zac