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 1Rjcl1-0002b8-Id for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 07 Jan 2012 20:20:51 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 42D4321C069; Sat, 7 Jan 2012 20:20:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: from spot.xmw.de (spot.xmw.de [176.9.87.236]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 224D121C045 for ; Sat, 7 Jan 2012 20:20:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [IPv6:2001:6f8:1c00:1af::2] (cl-432.ham-02.de.sixxs.net [IPv6:2001:6f8:1c00:1af::2]) by spot.xmw.de (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 7037027FE9E5B for ; Sat, 7 Jan 2012 21:20:03 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <4F08A8F0.8050503@gentoo.org> Date: Sat, 07 Jan 2012 21:20:00 +0100 From: Michael Weber User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:8.0) Gecko/20111117 Thunderbird/8.0 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] rfc: locations of binaries and separate /usr References: <1325616625.7238.23.camel@TesterBox.tester.ca> <20120103190255.GA13817@linux1> <20120103191206.GP780@gentoo.org> <20120103200120.GB13936@linux1> <20120103212215.GU780@gentoo.org> <20120103230918.GA7247@linux1> <4F03A1AA.6070205@gentoo.org> <20120104091743.0e1cd91a@pomiocik.lan> <4F0440B3.4090500@gentoo.org> <20120104163734.07439f2b@pomiocik.lan> <20120104163315.GV780@gentoo.org> <20120104174742.11d7002d@pomiocik.lan> <20228.34930.732592.657243@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> <1325698374.22213.10.camel@TesterBox.tester.ca> <4F050DA9.4060704@gentoo.org> <4F07B7AC.8070007@gentoo.org> <4F07ED32.2030707@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <4F07ED32.2030707@gentoo.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 8ac7302f-e59d-4d7d-b06b-0423761e9f1b X-Archives-Hash: ae58f7d38047b072a7f5c9b048116d30 On 01/07/2012 07:58 AM, Zac Medico wrote: > That seems like an awfully large initramfs to load into memory for every > boot, just to have it wiped from memory after switching to the real > root. It's fine as long as you're not trying to shave every last > microsecond off of your boot time though. The size is 59MB, core2duo 2x2.20GHz, 44MB/s HDD needs approx 3 seconds reading from xfs /boot > An alternative approach to a having a bulky initramfs "recovery > partition" like yours would be to put the content of a livecd/usb > recovery disk onto a spare partition, and configure your lean busybox > initramfs to mount that as the root if something goes wrong with your > real root. Yeah, i have full disk ecnryption and /boot is my "recovery" partition. I don't want to reboot or picup usb/optical media to fix problems. Well, and i can backup my system via nc/ssh/sshd/..., plus screen-lock. 3 seconds "penalty" on approx 50 boos/year are less time than standing up and search-rescue an potentially outdated external media. And yes, I decided against recompiled binaries (USE=-X) in favor of creation time (approx 3 minutes), that f**ks vim and nethack. Michael -- Gentoo Dev http://xmw.de/