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 1R39kN-0001KS-HL for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 12 Sep 2011 16:52:39 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4028221C230; Mon, 12 Sep 2011 16:52:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-gw0-f53.google.com (mail-gw0-f53.google.com [74.125.83.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 544CB21C0E0 for ; Mon, 12 Sep 2011 16:50:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: by gwj20 with SMTP id 20so131929gwj.40 for ; Mon, 12 Sep 2011 09:50:46 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=fuAXn7APr5qWRPAfuHGEbeXO7PCA7MbrrQZdU2nup2w=; b=KhetMpAJaRgNWkus/Ljfo/MsFK/XG4pgASPmxPfhtCEqXoEt4I0nuCs8mR/BxHzvWD gXZtXkvtehiQYv9QSY6QC64q5yfgW+a7FZcM+tSiywoZOgfI4aa0Kp2Kst4H0IKdRULT q1GBqQuTGGblMk30edLNczZb5VqsHglZeksUY= Received: by 10.236.179.72 with SMTP id g48mr28007694yhm.50.1315846245790; Mon, 12 Sep 2011 09:50:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.2.5] (adsl-65-0-89-228.jan.bellsouth.net [65.0.89.228]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 20sm14866734anl.12.2011.09.12.09.50.44 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Mon, 12 Sep 2011 09:50:44 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4E6E3863.5060802@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2011 11:50:43 -0500 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:6.0) Gecko/20110829 Firefox/6.0 SeaMonkey/2.3.1 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: /dev/sda* missing at boot References: <201108191109.34984.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> <2041021.Ne6GbGEXyK@pc> <20110912084002.GA2433@nicolas-desktop> <2361178.mfYzYPtk2c@pc> In-Reply-To: <2361178.mfYzYPtk2c@pc> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: f1fb4e7c6e7e3a53bdccbd18332c2c09 Michael Schreckenbauer wrote: > Hi, > > On Monday, 12. September 2011 10:40:02 Nicolas Sebrecht wrote: > >> So, what's the good way to fix all that mess? Certainly not moving most >> of software to /. Fortunately, we can expect /usr to be mounted before >> udev starts via the initramfs. > That's *your* opinion. Most people on this list disagree. > >> It does NOT mean everybody will require a initramfs. It means people >> WANTING a seperate /usr will need a initramfs. >> The good thing is that a lot of tools now in / will be granted back to >> /usr. Let's clean up /. Also, it's a _good_ news for admins expecting to >> maintain systems with a shared /usr (e.g. over the network). > Since when is a mandatory initramfs a good thing for admins? > Care to explain? > > Regards, > Michael > > Couldn't agree more. Dale :-) :-)