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 4.77) (envelope-from ) id 1SradI-0003Y7-C2 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 18 Jul 2012 20:14:04 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C137EE0773; Wed, 18 Jul 2012 19:56:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-bk0-f53.google.com (mail-bk0-f53.google.com [209.85.214.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1ADC3E071D for ; Wed, 18 Jul 2012 19:55:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: by bkwj4 with SMTP id j4so1809966bkw.40 for ; Wed, 18 Jul 2012 12:55:55 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=QoPgXmnLcHjfOGUMFSgMcZoua6Z8uJ5x3bs2HPbWiDw=; b=PH/jjqOsWxjYOlBTaaUNQD4dXaI1/S2RkfCbf4KXYMUswvEmCwvHBFa/ORnwUpHsYo frf5yv3DqmFRDkZpEl7EXGvhvzGIKjtqLsLn3ryhaoINkUpvY4GbxE1LG38/rXYHC7So 6BJTh2Zn/Zxy5syi+vnIKH90qR+wbKoy1yGeXM//nxRs7cp3mtsqvU6f6mHseJCoGubW MqMSuzSFNcFJi0V26668KiR3qQHP8L4h9f8ResZnIRmgkntznjGE1grW5tU98h+fcEat vRO326NyRaKEbu2R2p/DA9+gVJ2mfh+K1wU0V+waqulCPI6Hj4rra6VE8EYn4bwWmUYk jP0w== 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 Received: by 10.204.157.156 with SMTP id b28mr2600120bkx.27.1342641355230; Wed, 18 Jul 2012 12:55:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.204.10.12 with HTTP; Wed, 18 Jul 2012 12:55:55 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <50071375.9090605@gentoo.org> References: <5005D70D.3060108@gentoo.org> <1342566449.18313.38.camel@TesterTop4> <50063368.8080106@gentoo.org> <20120718101027.55dd00fe@pomiocik.lan> <5006B7A4.6010202@gentoo.org> <20120718161351.GA19044@serenity.o.westcall.spb.ru> <20120718184012.12446404@googlemail.com> <20120718195809.242f7d99@pomiocik.lan> <50071375.9090605@gentoo.org> Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2012 15:55:55 -0400 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Opinion against /usr merge From: Michael Mol To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 86914fa6-22d9-46fa-8895-37f8d380b78d X-Archives-Hash: 489714fee6f0ab68c3e472a722e2f346 On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 3:50 PM, Ian Stakenvicius wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA256 > > On 18/07/12 03:47 PM, Michael Mol wrote: >> On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 3:25 PM, Canek Pel=C3=A1ez Vald=C3=A9s >> wrote: >>> On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 2:18 PM, Michael Mol >>> wrote: >>> >>> The real benefit is that it allows you to mount any partition, if >>> the tools to mount it live in the same partition. >> >> Certainly that's a benefit. >> > > ...don't you mean, "if the tools to mount it live in the initramfs" ?? > > if the partition isn't mounted I don't see how the initramfs will > allow you to mount it using its own tools... I think you're replying to Canek. I took it to mean that having an initramfs allows you to mount the very filesystems where you would _traditionally_ expect to find the tools. E.g., being able to mount an encrypted /. --=20 :wq