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 1SDJkn-0003Lp-Ae for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 29 Mar 2012 18:07:21 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 96CD0E0C89; Thu, 29 Mar 2012 18:06:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.digimed.co.uk (82-69-83-178.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk [82.69.83.178]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0165DE076F for ; Thu, 29 Mar 2012 18:05:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from digimed.co.uk (yooden.digimed.co.uk [192.168.1.6]) by mail.digimed.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 13C4280888 for ; Thu, 29 Mar 2012 19:05:05 +0100 (BST) Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2012 19:04:58 +0100 From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: After /usr conflation: why not copy booting software to /sbin rather than initramfs? Message-ID: <20120329190458.48cc3334@digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20120329172911.GD2961@acm.acm> References: <20120327142646.GB3754@acm.acm> <20120327154620.21440f87@digimed.co.uk> <86iphq0vza.fsf@jane.chrekh.se> <003e01cd0c53$a2e99b90$e8bcd2b0$@kutulu.org> <20120327212422.GA3437@acm.acm> <20120327234819.45111444@khamul.example.com> <20120327223544.GC3437@acm.acm> <01bf01cd0c9a$a2259000$e670b000$@kutulu.org> <20120329155628.GC2961@acm.acm> <20120329173535.2c5482fd@hactar.digimed.co.uk> <20120329172911.GD2961@acm.acm> Organization: Digital Media Production X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.8.0cvs34 (GTK+ 2.24.10; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-GPG-Fingerprint: 7260 0F33 97EC 2F1E 7667 FE37 BA6E 1A97 4375 1903 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_/L=P/RycBOLu+tG6rTr3vEmj"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Archives-Salt: 879863bf-e7f8-40aa-9dd2-134c40dddb69 X-Archives-Hash: 2b435c7d041122dc8fd90a027051272d --Sig_/L=P/RycBOLu+tG6rTr3vEmj Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, 29 Mar 2012 17:29:11 +0000, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > > It's already happened here. My kernel mounts / and /usr thanks to the > > inbuilt initramfs =20 >=20 > That's exactly what I didn't mean, and I think you might have been aware > of that. Maybe, but it does fit your description. > What I did mean was being able to mount subsequent partitions by giving > kernel parameters in the boot loader configuration file. Something like > "mount=3D8,3:/usr" for mount /dev/sda3 /usr. >=20 > This would avoid the need to spend any effort whatsoever on building an > initramfs, yet /usr would be mounted early in boot. That sounds like a simple and elegant idea, and the kernel already contains the code to mount filesystems. However, it doesn't handle dm-crypt or LVM and putting all that in the kernel could be more complex than putting the initramfs to do it in the kernel. However, if it could be made to work , it would be a neat approach. --=20 Neil Bothwick Master of all I survey (at the moment, empty pizza boxes) --Sig_/L=P/RycBOLu+tG6rTr3vEmj Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAk90pFAACgkQum4al0N1GQPNAgCfZIZgxlWt3mI6qUZ92M8tWYgp njUAoIgRDXtyxC93WUUkUGejlnFe/5NL =KvkO -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/L=P/RycBOLu+tG6rTr3vEmj--