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 1SHK9m-0002Qc-C3 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 09 Apr 2012 19:21:42 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 706F1E0958; Mon, 9 Apr 2012 19:21:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 12588E08A2 for ; Mon, 9 Apr 2012 19:20:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.42.4] (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 043391B409D for ; Mon, 9 Apr 2012 19:20:43 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <4F833687.4040004@gentoo.org> Date: Mon, 09 Apr 2012 12:20:39 -0700 From: Zac Medico User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686 on x86_64; rv:11.0) Gecko/20120404 Thunderbird/11.0.1 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] Re: Re: [gentoo-dev-announce] Council meeting summary for 3 April 2012 References: <20353.41193.129711.306663@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> <20120408220422.GA26440@kroah.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: cf30e0c6-c26a-48eb-bf87-c0a1eafa0a79 X-Archives-Hash: c70fedcf908196b774edc7aa5bf4b071 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