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 1S7sVf-0007Y8-5Y for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 14 Mar 2012 18:01:15 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 985E7E09FE; Wed, 14 Mar 2012 18:00:56 +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 D0E4EE078D for ; Wed, 14 Mar 2012 17:59:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: by bkwj4 with SMTP id j4so1801805bkw.40 for ; Wed, 14 Mar 2012 10:59:45 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=S1k/iOEhLpnpk8TTCPto6smZF/V1/ML+pjtGY56Eu08=; b=iQFr60LhPEfVdTVrX3dfUn1gZen30aHw93U0y26hKavFlZk5GiJURU4rNjrWXnBmdE laoetTseamrGmziVXnhZQHhKmyOG7yBGFQ83NKKaWC/tF1LxbqBPFjk2si9raLrWmLWF YR7qE/ESn3MwEvytWPYJW8z1odbg2A0VWf/4FBy19kYB9qTirHVeu+79uGWer4vfku6b klJeSBLPpfb/bW9TJxka5Svrnq1FB5NyykXT2gF55NieSZ4DSw6z9KJdTJjgA823q1qZ M8AsZxEa7QnndxGEgHQ1vOaYEuEf7FKIFB6RT/QgA3it4vlAh0gic/OjpxJDPOH0BvQI emsA== 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 10.204.152.27 with SMTP id e27mr1297155bkw.55.1331747984866; Wed, 14 Mar 2012 10:59:44 -0700 (PDT) Sender: freemanrich@gmail.com Received: by 10.205.32.194 with HTTP; Wed, 14 Mar 2012 10:59:44 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4F60D585.4050206@gentoo.org> References: <20120311173355.GB6599@linux1> <4F5EA152.80604@gentoo.org> <4F5FE34A.4030609@gentoo.org> <4F6091CE.1050009@gentoo.org> <20120314144115.GA30606@kroah.com> <20120314145144.GC3200@ca.inter.net> <20120314150431.GA2033@kroah.com> <20120314150827.53dc8336@googlemail.com> <20120314152209.GA2157@kroah.com> <4F60D585.4050206@gentoo.org> Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2012 13:59:44 -0400 X-Google-Sender-Auth: ZoxtJ6cCQ4gxzxETOing30T6Y2M Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Let's redesign the entire filesystem! From: Rich Freeman To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: cc66c866-0279-4d2d-aa0c-9a62722dab22 X-Archives-Hash: 9e4e838c4db4e42f17d00dc06de8dcf7 On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 1:29 PM, Zac Medico wrote: > On 03/14/2012 10:11 AM, Maxim Kammerer wrote: >> What's wrong with: >> =A0 * having an "early mounts" list file >> =A0 * having an "early modules" list file >> =A0 * init system in early boot (e.g., OpenRC in init.sh) loading "early >> modules" and mounting "early mounts" from /etc/fstab > > You're assuming that the /sbin/init hasn't migrated to /usr/sbin/init. > Other that that, it sounds like a perfect solution if you're in the "I'd > rather die than use an initramfs" camp. Well, anybody is welcome to create any replacement/addition for (/usr)/sbin/init or (/usr)/sbin/rc that they wish. If you make it good enough, perhaps others will even use it. Beyond that, anything else is just a suggestion. In the end the folks writing udev and systemd are writing code, which gets them a lot further than emails do... :) Rich