From: Zac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: [gentoo-dev-announce] Council meeting summary for 3 April 2012
Date: Mon, 09 Apr 2012 12:20:39 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F833687.4040004@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jlv8e2$fdj$1@dough.gmane.org>
On 04/09/2012 11:09 AM, Steven J Long wrote:
> One thing that has bothered me with the mooting of an initramfs as the new
> rescue system that rootfs has traditionally been, is at the we are told at
> the same time that the initramfs can be very minimal. If so, how does it
> provide the same capabilities as rootfs (for those of us who can localmount
> without udev-configured devices)?
We've had some discussion on this before [1], and I've suggested to copy
the content of livecd/usb recovery disk onto a spare partition so that
you can boot into that if necessary. The advantage of using this
approach is that it eliminates the burden of maintaining the "/ is a
self-contained boot disk that's independent of /usr" use case.
[1]
http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/msg_ceb908069aafdfff50e7f2d0732bf209.xml
--
Thanks,
Zac
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-04-09 19:21 UTC|newest]
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[not found] <20353.41193.129711.306663@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de>
2012-04-08 22:04 ` [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-dev-announce] Council meeting summary for 3 April 2012 Greg KH
2012-04-08 23:28 ` Rich Freeman
2012-04-09 18:09 ` [gentoo-dev] " Steven J Long
2012-04-09 19:20 ` Zac Medico [this message]
2012-04-11 2:28 ` [gentoo-dev] " Steven J Long
2012-04-11 4:09 ` Zac Medico
2012-04-11 5:18 ` William Hubbs
2012-04-11 16:10 ` [gentoo-dev] " Steven J Long
2012-04-28 21:09 ` Mike Frysinger
2012-05-04 16:36 ` [gentoo-dev] " Steven J Long
2012-05-04 16:47 ` Mike Frysinger
2012-05-04 17:24 ` [gentoo-dev] " Steven J Long
2012-04-11 14:13 ` [gentoo-dev] " Steven J Long
2012-04-11 19:57 ` Zac Medico
2012-04-22 2:43 ` [gentoo-dev] " Steven J Long
2012-04-22 2:53 ` Rich Freeman
2012-04-22 5:28 ` [gentoo-dev] " Steven J Long
2012-04-22 6:00 ` Mike Gilbert
2012-04-22 9:07 ` [gentoo-dev] " Ulrich Mueller
2012-04-22 9:28 ` [gentoo-dev] " Steven J Long
2012-04-22 17:55 ` Mike Gilbert
2012-04-22 18:13 ` Zac Medico
2012-05-04 15:20 ` [gentoo-dev] " Steven J Long
2012-05-04 19:50 ` Zac Medico
2012-05-04 15:10 ` Steven J Long
2012-04-22 9:11 ` [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Re: Re: " Steven J Long
2012-04-23 1:25 ` [gentoo-dev] " Walter Dnes
2012-04-23 6:04 ` Zac Medico
2012-04-23 14:29 ` Walter Dnes
2012-04-23 6:30 ` [gentoo-dev] " Fabian Groffen
2012-05-04 14:50 ` [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: [gentoo-dev-announce] " Steven J Long
2012-05-05 1:05 ` Greg KH
2012-05-08 1:40 ` [gentoo-dev] Tightly-coupled core distro [was: Council meeting summary for 3 April 2012] Steven J Long
2012-05-08 2:09 ` Richard Yao
2012-05-09 18:32 ` Greg KH
2012-05-09 18:51 ` Fabio Erculiani
2012-05-09 22:36 ` Greg KH
2012-05-10 1:08 ` Patrick Lauer
2012-05-10 3:08 ` Rich Freeman
2012-05-10 4:34 ` Fabio Erculiani
2012-05-10 16:54 ` Olivier Crête
2012-05-14 18:48 ` Luca Barbato
2012-05-10 23:41 ` Alec Warner
2012-05-17 4:39 ` [gentoo-dev] " Steven J Long
2012-05-10 11:44 ` [gentoo-dev] " Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn
2012-05-10 14:39 ` Zac Medico
2012-05-12 0:39 ` Greg KH
2012-05-10 18:57 ` David Leverton
2012-05-10 19:22 ` Zac Medico
2012-05-10 19:30 ` David Leverton
2012-05-11 1:27 ` [gentoo-dev] " Duncan
2012-05-10 19:55 ` [gentoo-dev] " Markos Chandras
2012-05-10 19:59 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2012-05-10 20:13 ` Michał Górny
2012-05-10 20:14 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2012-05-10 20:23 ` Michał Górny
2012-05-10 20:48 ` Fabio Erculiani
2012-05-11 0:59 ` [gentoo-dev] " Duncan
2012-05-11 2:53 ` Duncan
2012-05-13 2:24 ` Walter Dnes
[not found] ` <4bdd949a377d40eb85590870be440551@HUBCAS1.cs.stonybrook.edu>
2012-11-18 7:54 ` [gentoo-dev] " Richard Yao
2012-11-18 8:08 ` Greg KH
2012-11-18 8:10 ` Richard Yao
2012-11-18 8:19 ` Greg KH
2012-11-18 8:19 ` Richard Yao
2012-11-18 8:27 ` Greg KH
2012-11-18 8:38 ` Pacho Ramos
2012-11-18 8:21 ` Diego Elio Pettenò
2012-11-18 8:49 ` Samuli Suominen
2012-11-18 11:11 ` Vadim A. Misbakh-Soloviov
2012-11-18 12:26 ` Rich Freeman
2012-11-18 16:49 ` [gentoo-dev] " Duncan
2012-11-18 15:04 ` [gentoo-dev] " Diego Elio Pettenò
2012-11-18 15:16 ` Samuli Suominen
2012-11-18 15:31 ` Diego Elio Pettenò
2012-11-18 15:32 ` Fabian Groffen
2012-11-18 15:34 ` Vadim A. Misbakh-Soloviov
2012-11-18 15:42 ` Diego Elio Pettenò
2012-11-18 15:51 ` Fabian Groffen
2012-11-19 8:20 ` Vadim A. Misbakh-Soloviov
2012-11-19 12:14 ` Rich Freeman
2012-11-19 13:08 ` Fabian Groffen
2012-11-18 15:50 ` Luca Barbato
2012-11-19 13:07 ` [gentoo-dev] Re: Tightly-coupled core distro Steven J. Long
2012-11-19 16:32 ` Alec Warner
2012-11-19 16:52 ` Rich Freeman
2012-11-19 16:54 ` Diego Elio Pettenò
2012-11-27 8:11 ` [gentoo-dev] " Steven J. Long
2012-11-19 17:43 ` [gentoo-dev] " Peter Stuge
2012-11-19 18:16 ` Rich Freeman
2012-11-19 18:33 ` Peter Stuge
2012-11-18 15:43 ` [gentoo-dev] Tightly-coupled core distro [was: Council meeting summary for 3 April 2012] Vadim A. Misbakh-Soloviov
2012-11-18 15:47 ` Diego Elio Pettenò
2012-11-18 15:54 ` Fabian Groffen
2012-11-18 16:00 ` Diego Elio Pettenò
2012-11-18 16:14 ` Fabio Erculiani
2012-11-18 15:56 ` Luca Barbato
2012-11-18 17:19 ` [gentoo-dev] " Duncan
2012-11-18 18:15 ` Stelian Ionescu
2012-05-17 4:16 ` Steven J Long
2012-04-11 11:44 ` [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Re: [gentoo-dev-announce] Council meeting summary for 3 April 2012 Rich Freeman
2012-04-11 15:09 ` [gentoo-dev] " Steven J Long
2012-04-11 16:55 ` Rich Freeman
2012-04-22 3:30 ` [gentoo-dev] " Steven J Long
2012-04-10 18:45 ` [gentoo-dev] " William Hubbs
2012-04-11 9:34 ` Ralph Sennhauser
2012-04-28 23:44 ` Luca Barbato
2012-04-29 6:44 ` Michał Górny
2012-04-29 7:04 ` Luca Barbato
2012-04-29 22:40 ` Zac Medico
2012-04-29 23:38 ` Luca Barbato
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