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 1SDBHJ-0008DQ-Sj for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 29 Mar 2012 09:04:22 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7E31EE0BDE for ; Thu, 29 Mar 2012 09:04:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ey0-f181.google.com (mail-ey0-f181.google.com [209.85.215.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E99C1E0B32 for ; Thu, 29 Mar 2012 08:29:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: by eaa1 with SMTP id 1so831021eaa.40 for ; Thu, 29 Mar 2012 01:29:49 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:in-reply-to:references :organization:x-mailer:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=e+cL5T6OwJ2lUQREzE7B5+tbjXSRoqXc1Jh/+Vr6CMU=; b=wUzZMqwC8eWRQg7fB7Z2emTrd2Vm92qfgoex7dQhabqSsWOHP69P8JEoMo2ftbf7Eq c5TIIH/zbPbKN58xiE2PU9RWnf2/kkbYjjemf5iV3LELGrQ6p+t78HvxQNLCOgOFgeXf a/WorXyqn1XY9VkWWcl0eGKDWUoMYQ2AJG7VhcvRt5VUrstzzttb4eLHWlR/gPowmuys rMPrn6uZxcm+PB33X8ImBui7PyFn9olp6IjCZjZrYYFCELVe/TotOIep8Kc0QS08y57O XH4j3zC10XF/B1HIJ+CujG84xy7A3NZW1KXAc+OckRxw/gRM8VrTDqsGjuUT+8yzAhi3 RGPQ== Received: by 10.180.86.132 with SMTP id p4mr2946474wiz.15.1333009789676; Thu, 29 Mar 2012 01:29:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from khamul.example.com (196-210-183-224.dynamic.isadsl.co.za. [196.210.183.224]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id e6sm65054019wix.8.2012.03.29.01.29.46 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Thu, 29 Mar 2012 01:29:48 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2012 10:28:36 +0200 From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Cc: dwnoon@ntlworld.com Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] InitRAMFS - boot expert sought Message-ID: <20120329102836.3ea5e242@khamul.example.com> In-Reply-To: <20120329002004.6a4506a5@karnak.local> References: <1332844604.4130.0@numa-i> <4F71BE44.3080206@kutulu.org> <01de01cd0c26$98088c40$c819a4c0$@kutulu.org> <4F71E12F.7060108@gmail.com> <000901cd0c40$0a137520$1e3a5f60$@kutulu.org> <4F720751.3020900@gmail.com> <4F72149D.7060605@darkmetatron.de> <4F721D30.8090400@gmail.com> <4F722735.90500@gmail.com> <4F72348A.2060407@gmail.com> <20120327235215.7834f4c7@khamul.example.com> <4F723F01.4040904@gmail.com> <20120328012023.50434b55@karnak.local> <20120328234027.33766b9c@khamul.example.com> <20120328230124.057e1472@karnak.local> <20120329002640.11ecf6e5@khamul.example.com> <20120329002004.6a4506a5@karnak.local> Organization: Internet Solutions X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.10 (GTK+ 2.24.10; x86_64-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: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 0bfbfd47-b598-49e8-be83-dbf1c77c5ac2 X-Archives-Hash: 244f6df452b80e772d8cf98daba1e120 On Thu, 29 Mar 2012 00:20:04 +0100 David W Noon wrote: > On Thu, 29 Mar 2012 00:26:40 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote about Re: > [gentoo-user] InitRAMFS - boot expert sought: > > > On Wed, 28 Mar 2012 23:01:24 +0100 > > David W Noon wrote: > [snip] > > > With the pending changes to udev scripts, you could well need /var > > > -- and anything else -- before udev starts. So it is in the same > > > category as /usr. > > > > Maybe, maybe not. > > > > However, no-one apart from you is even suggesting such a thing. For > > my part I'm going to ignore that possibility and concentrate on > > those things that are being seriously suggested. > > The Gentoo developers have been discussing just that. The reason is > that many of the daemons that can be started by udev scripts require > work files on /var, so we could well need /var mounted too. Which begs the obvious question, Why on earth is udev launching daemons in EARLY BOOT? -- Alan McKinnnon alan.mckinnon@gmail.com