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 1RNrRa-0000w2-CR for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 08 Nov 2011 19:34:50 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9408121C05F; Tue, 8 Nov 2011 19:34:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mailout-de.gmx.net (mailout-de.gmx.net [213.165.64.22]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0DA7FE05B1 for ; Tue, 8 Nov 2011 19:33:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 08 Nov 2011 19:33:40 -0000 Received: from p5B0849F4.dip.t-dialin.net (EHLO pc.localnet) [91.8.73.244] by mail.gmx.net (mp002) with SMTP; 08 Nov 2011 20:33:40 +0100 X-Authenticated: #13997268 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1/xPjBrAzrxCuZUtVxaN7EeBo827JSF2YpYOlOgdS HbzxUlpocpakl+ From: Michael Schreckenbauer To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] udev with separate /usr and no initramfs Date: Tue, 08 Nov 2011 20:33:37 +0100 Message-ID: <1424669.XtUIfkbPsA@pc> User-Agent: KMail/4.7.3 (Linux/2.6.38-gentoo; KDE/4.7.3; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: References: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-Archives-Salt: 63f771cd-398a-44de-9341-24008f2e64b7 X-Archives-Hash: 30ba419d57bc991f05f300f304212366 Hi, Am Dienstag, 8. November 2011, 19:24:11 schrieb Steven J Long: > Hi, > > Following the debates over the summer, about plans to require an initramfs > for udev, I put together a slightly different approach using the dependency > tracking in openrc. It's outlined (in Unsupported Software) at: > http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-6866484.html > and consists of a couple of simple patches to the initscripts for udev and > udev-mount, supporting a new initramfs option (defaults to "yes") in > udev.conf. I've been using it on my desktop at home for a couple of months > now and it works like a charm here. As ever, YMMV. interesting approach. > As I state in the post: > This is only for people who know they have all the modules built-in the > kernel to mount local filesystems, have a separate /usr and/or /var, and are > happy with their current setups, apart from possible future issues with > udev starting before localmount, and find the requirement for an initramfs > sufficiently annoying to tweak their setups, *and* are willing to deal with > keeping the lines in the initscripts during etc-updates. > > This is on stable udev (164-r2.) I'm not running unstable, so be careful if > you are, and let us know if there are any changes needed. You can get in > touch on IRC, or via the forum post. I am running ~amd64 and I'll try this, when I have some spare time. I'll let you know, how it works for me. Thanks a lot for this. > HTH, > igli. Best, Michael