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 1RFQRl-0003C3-EK for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 16 Oct 2011 13:08:09 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C305C21C173; Sun, 16 Oct 2011 13:07:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-bw0-f53.google.com (mail-bw0-f53.google.com [209.85.214.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 96F1B21C036 for ; Sun, 16 Oct 2011 13:07:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: by bke11 with SMTP id 11so2278547bke.40 for ; Sun, 16 Oct 2011 06:07:24 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; bh=Y4qa0uLJ2HPCkE2bKYT5FnVoR7FSMOAvox96571mCO0=; b=Z/usHJfv2TLqA4OTykiyVKHatZup6QdJDp4O4pGU0k62c1dmO/qOQR9AwbmMs+t9q7 SyEvVU2FIUxeslgJp2eiLHztH7frCVQQndyCHx36enJ5KdKrc0oVUmTtpIR7mADvrwN1 e9gKhcxrNItTxjPpAw/yaFrXm1RZWclc91+PY= 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 10.204.156.141 with SMTP id x13mr11403560bkw.54.1318770444737; Sun, 16 Oct 2011 06:07:24 -0700 (PDT) Sender: freemanrich@gmail.com Received: by 10.204.72.195 with HTTP; Sun, 16 Oct 2011 06:07:24 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4E9A0414.7030603@gentoo.org> References: <20111012044023.GA8203@waltdnes.org> <1318518871.3885.3.camel@TesterBox.tester.ca> <20111013180547.4973defa@googlemail.com> <4416149.yvcg9DIAd9@pc> <4E994AEF.5030002@mailstation.de> <4E9A0414.7030603@gentoo.org> Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2011 09:07:24 -0400 X-Google-Sender-Auth: 2Do5FrLvchn_82LOxy078aNYL9E Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Suggestion for getting rid of udev From: Rich Freeman To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: c5251d3f117a5fb828d95aa495031f10 On Sat, Oct 15, 2011 at 6:07 PM, Zac Medico wrote: > > I don't think it's a good idea for Gentoo to encourage users to have > /usr on a separate partition. We should probably remove the separate > /usr partition from "Code Listing 2.1: Filesystem usage example" in our > handbook: > > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=1&chap=4#doc_chap2_pre1 > Well, if we want to do that then we should also update: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-x86+raid+lvm2-quickinstall.xml Of course - that is an initramfs-less configuration, and such a thing would be nearly impossible to do with /usr on root unless you basically don't put anything of value on the LVM volumes in the first place. You could put everything but /boot on LVM and then use an initramfs. Or, you need to cover mounting /usr, /var, etc from the initramfs. And I don't think it is a good idea to NOT have a supported RAID/LVM configuration. That is hardly an edge case... Rich