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 1R1TZs-0007Mv-VY for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 08 Sep 2011 01:38:53 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 441EA21C17C; Thu, 8 Sep 2011 01:38:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: from karnak.local (cpc2-lutn10-2-0-cust603.9-3.cable.virginmedia.com [81.97.90.92]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 02B3921C035 for ; Thu, 8 Sep 2011 01:37:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by karnak.local (Postfix) with ESMTP id 070813003 for ; Thu, 8 Sep 2011 02:37:40 +0100 (BST) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new using ClamAV at karnak.local Received: from karnak.local ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (karnak.local [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id RrFkLO3UQwsT for ; Thu, 8 Sep 2011 02:37:37 +0100 (BST) Received: from karnak.local (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by karnak.local (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C7FD3002 for ; Thu, 8 Sep 2011 02:37:37 +0100 (BST) Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2011 02:37:29 +0100 From: David W Noon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot Message-ID: <20110908023729.45d1b985@karnak.local> In-Reply-To: <20110907235457.691be720@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> References: <201108191109.34984.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> <20110907050952.GA2588@linux1> <4E66FFFA.2020600@gmail.com> <201109071923.39954.Dan.Johansson@dmj.nu> <20110907235457.691be720@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> Organization: Luton Operatic Society X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.9 (GTK+ 2.24.4; i686-pc-linux-gnu) 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-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=PGP-SHA1; boundary="Sig_/V_hTF=MQ0hkuRkw76.QA3Yj"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 5b18ffe5efc60ecaa2aa3fe31f15f12f --Sig_/V_hTF=MQ0hkuRkw76.QA3Yj Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, 7 Sep 2011 23:54:57 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote about Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot: > On Wed, 7 Sep 2011 13:52:22 -0400, Canek Pel=C3=A1ez Vald=C3=A9s wrote: >=20 > > After reading that, and other similar threads, I still don't > > understand the benefits of a separated /usr. >=20 > Putting it on a logical volume is one advantage, allowing /usr to be > resized should the need arise. More than this, one can put /usr on a stripe set so that /usr/bin and /usr/lib, two of the directories with the highest I/O traffic, can be made more performant. But this requires LVM, RAID or some blend of both. This, in turn, precludes that it be merged with /, unless the initramfs grows even more to handle those extra DASD management facilities. The more I think about this merge of / and /usr, the dumber I think the idea is. As I wrote in an earlier message on this list, the initramfs will be many times larger than the kernel itself. Indeed, my /boot partition is only 32 MiB, and that will be too small to contain all the extra libraries and programs to run the initramfs script. > > Mounting it read-only > > seems the only sensible one, and then I think is better to go all > > the way and mount / read-only. >=20 > Putting /etc on a read-only filesystem seems a really bad idea. To say the least. --=20 Regards, Dave [RLU #314465] *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* dwnoon@ntlworld.com (David W Noon) *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* --Sig_/V_hTF=MQ0hkuRkw76.QA3Yj Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAk5oHGEACgkQc9/LpQ70v48lKACfXLKclcUrNIkcOzE0NGTjz27K R70AnjiMC4HBNM2tiS7lEIa5clOhN7OB =qiGh -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/V_hTF=MQ0hkuRkw76.QA3Yj--