From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7EEE31381F3 for ; Mon, 17 Dec 2012 07:39:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1009621C09E; Mon, 17 Dec 2012 07:39:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ea0-f181.google.com (mail-ea0-f181.google.com [209.85.215.181]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id F156021C0A8 for ; Mon, 17 Dec 2012 07:37:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-ea0-f181.google.com with SMTP id k14so2306187eaa.40 for ; Sun, 16 Dec 2012 23:37:30 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=date:from:to:subject:message-id:in-reply-to:references:organization :x-mailer:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=DnphvqQOWG0fFAjP1IST5w5qzCtdX+46lsjC4WRTjj4=; b=BvbYeYFqqMEPBh5PLWFwWBpYBdvm5bIElGaHj/7PE/aOi6WPlvPLwFZd96EekmKIbm yuu071bCoFH/YJa4IyqYG0ZUQUNOyn/h+0TOVsvxcnAUY4VF4gz4eckPDyTwD9PdLKER toyjN+yAqsB4svOgU1rpFzTUpMrGBKWt9CDXgyJJrmJQyUK2V3zI9iD0UCOanvTXsWpg Xv1z7CCla7oKCuaMBa1tThYa7XLwoQLdBtRBXz7AD6fTiXWW1S9b1EHcgPTrqaRWsBXT rW2DFM2uFIXTKLZS81AZmob98EluCKZbtjh84b6a7UzTdiG/LOvLxjX2COWFttmh2abc S9QA== Received: by 10.14.223.135 with SMTP id v7mr39021189eep.41.1355729850603; Sun, 16 Dec 2012 23:37:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from khamul.example.com (196-215-209-117.dynamic.isadsl.co.za. [196.215.209.117]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id z8sm27362959eeo.11.2012.12.16.23.37.28 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sun, 16 Dec 2012 23:37:29 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2012 09:33:59 +0200 From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone switched to eudev yet? Message-ID: <20121217093359.05461a9e@khamul.example.com> In-Reply-To: <876241d9gn.fsf@ist.utl.pt> References: <50CB1942.3020900@gmail.com> <50CB4A3C.1030109@gmail.com> <50CB5406.7040404@gmail.com> <8738z7hgsa.fsf@ist.utl.pt> <20121216171043.71084070@khamul.example.com> <20121216184953.GD16560@server> <876241d9gn.fsf@ist.utl.pt> Organization: Internet Solutions X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.8.1 (GTK+ 2.24.14; 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: 73c1f6bb-ed11-4f39-8397-3e875d05a5fa X-Archives-Hash: 4453317638934f194be299e2e5185cf5 On Sun, 16 Dec 2012 22:32:24 +0200 nunojsilva@ist.utl.pt (Nuno J. Silva) wrote: > > Thanks for sharing your experience, and not just your emotions. One > > of my favorite quotes is, "A man with an experience is not subject > > to a man with an argument." > > My thanks, too! There's nothing like reading on some actual experience > with this. So this was once the reason to keep / separate. Not that > important anymore (but this is still no excuse to force people to keep > /usr in the same filesystem). > A rescue/maintainer mode was *very* useful in days gone by. Lately I feel that this is better served with properly built tool (SysrescueCD and friends) can be stored on disk and launched from grub. Besides, these tools do the job so much better than just about anything you would put in a production /. Just keep your tools up to date, nothing worse than finding your brand new shiny LVM is not mountable as the metadata format is too new :-) -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckinnon@gmail.com