* Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Let's redesign the entire filesystem!
@ 2012-03-14 19:26 99% ` Zac Medico
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From: Zac Medico @ 2012-03-14 19:26 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-dev
On 03/14/2012 12:14 PM, Michael Orlitzky wrote:
> On 03/14/12 14:56, Zac Medico wrote:
>> On 03/14/2012 11:36 AM, Maxim Kammerer wrote:
>>> On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 19:58, Matthew Summers
>>> <quantumsummers@gentoo.org> wrote:
>>>> Why is an in-kernel initramfs so bad anyway? I am baffled. Its quite
>>>> nice to have a minimal recovery env in case mounting fails, etc, etc,
>>>> etc.
>>>
>>> There is nothing bad about initramfs. I think that you are misreading
>>> the arguments above.
>>
>> Whatever the arguments may be, the whole discussion boils down to the
>> fact that the only people who seem to have a "problem" are those that
>> have a separate /usr partition and simultaneously refuse to use an
>> initramfs.
>
> People just don't like change for the sake of change, and haven't been
> shown any benefits yet. I don't have a separate /usr anywhere, but if I
> did, I would have to rebuild and test a good number of custom kernels
> that would eventually need to wind up on production servers.
>
> It would take a least a day's worth of work, not to mention staying late
> to make the switch overnight. If you can offer me something cool for it,
> great; but at the moment people are being offered "it will work the same
> as it did yesterday," which sucks, because it works that way now.
>
> Sure, there will be improvements in the future, but it can feel a lot
> like treading water sometimes.
Well, for most people, the most practical course of action is to suck it
up [1] and move on. Dwelling on it certainly won't help, and the
"redesign the entire filesystem" approach probably isn't very practical
for most people either.
[1] http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/suck_it_up
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Thanks,
Zac
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2012-03-14 12:40 ` [gentoo-dev] Re: Let's redesign the entire filesystem! Joshua Kinard
2012-03-14 14:41 ` Greg KH
2012-03-14 14:51 ` Philip Webb
2012-03-14 15:04 ` Greg KH
2012-03-14 15:08 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2012-03-14 15:22 ` Greg KH
2012-03-14 17:11 ` Maxim Kammerer
2012-03-14 17:29 ` Zac Medico
2012-03-14 17:58 ` Matthew Summers
2012-03-14 18:36 ` Maxim Kammerer
2012-03-14 18:56 ` Zac Medico
2012-03-14 19:14 ` Michael Orlitzky
2012-03-14 19:26 99% ` Zac Medico
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