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 1SCWdG-0002Yo-4U for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 27 Mar 2012 13:40:18 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 73C9DE08BB; Tue, 27 Mar 2012 13:40:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E91E7E0845 for ; Tue, 27 Mar 2012 13:38:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C8481B4002 for ; Tue, 27 Mar 2012 13:38:54 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new using ClamAV at gentoo.org X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: -1.815 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.815 tagged_above=-999 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=0.096, BAYES_00=-1.9, SPF_PASS=-0.001, T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD=-0.01] autolearn=no Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 0i68mBmFTNBg for ; Tue, 27 Mar 2012 13:38:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.muc.de (colin.muc.de [193.149.48.1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 587871B4012 for ; Tue, 27 Mar 2012 13:38:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 91680 invoked by uid 3782); 27 Mar 2012 13:38:43 -0000 Received: from acm.muc.de (pD9557CD6.dip.t-dialin.net [217.85.124.214]) by colin.muc.de (tmda-ofmipd) with ESMTP; Tue, 27 Mar 2012 15:38:41 +0200 Received: (qmail 3767 invoked by uid 1000); 27 Mar 2012 13:37:28 -0000 Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2012 13:37:28 +0000 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] After /usr conflation: why not copy booting software to /sbin rather than initramfs? Message-ID: <20120327133728.GA3754@acm.acm> 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: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/1.1.12 (Macallan) From: Alan Mackenzie X-Primary-Address: acm@muc.de X-Archives-Salt: 5411797c-caf4-4d00-831e-9b389b531371 X-Archives-Hash: 02bfbe79faf727ff7b52f86d94a5e8b5 Hello, Gentoo. I've been thinking about the problem of the conflation of every executable into /usr. If /usr isn't on /, the system can't boot without special preperations. Nothing new here. The method usually discussed is to copy the booting software into an initramfs on a partition other than /usr, and use this to mount /usr. My question: what, technically, prevents me from copying the booting software instead to /sbin and booting the system that way? -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).