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 7DE0F1381FB for ; Tue, 25 Dec 2012 21:07:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 214FF21C046; Tue, 25 Dec 2012 21:07:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-gh0-f179.google.com (mail-gh0-f179.google.com [209.85.160.179]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id E281121C022 for ; Tue, 25 Dec 2012 21:05:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-gh0-f179.google.com with SMTP id r14so735351ghr.10 for ; Tue, 25 Dec 2012 13:05:59 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=x-received:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject :references:in-reply-to:x-enigmail-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=+zMCLKIc7NTq+6B0AIMYADIgjefvVqEOiG09di8J8bk=; b=DKW2OBhg8ankjCTmnnA0CFXdNI5JD8/Wa6ofcD0YDCHe4FZyeWD7mJUcoKUHynMOk2 hXYU85dfHsaY0nca1pNTgcSHPRKwdpC1LTB6sb+J2r4MUO92Nqi67Gv4MN8Fm5Lmr0kC 9tkExOhUDYC+ujfaXWUZHr/k8UgtQVD+FFd51Pxh62RQ3t/NsgHsru5K6/noNFTI1Yr5 i7MMdBzrK95BFkdg/McXud+LC3ni+xQHtBNgXzdn7iU8Ivpc3X6cZGiU1FQwuSdOAN3u 9ZFsF4sNjdGb3FXLP5TbaZqcYhAdHOuCyaqxQUa67wwmGOWLqJnlNa5EemRnf1Od6fqk QMpQ== X-Received: by 10.236.193.225 with SMTP id k61mr22949475yhn.25.1356469559058; Tue, 25 Dec 2012 13:05:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.2.5] (adsl-65-0-94-18.jan.bellsouth.net. [65.0.94.18]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id z1sm19881548anj.2.2012.12.25.13.05.57 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Tue, 25 Dec 2012 13:05:58 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <50DA1535.1030102@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 25 Dec 2012 15:05:57 -0600 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/17.0 SeaMonkey/2.14.1 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: Anyone switched to eudev yet? References: <20121217104621.735bf43a@khamul.example.com> <20121218163332.7956f31a@khamul.example.com> <87txrd6pb3.fsf@ist.utl.pt> <20121223182037.1553813f@khamul.example.com> <87bodk7lb6.fsf@ist.utl.pt> <20121223172053.GB23711@acm.acm> <877go87jec.fsf@ist.utl.pt> <20121223203941.20fdd9a7@digimed.co.uk> <20121224012724.GA23138@waltdnes.org> <20121224125857.026d180b@khamul.example.com> <853345.97532.bm@smtp146.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> <50D87A32.3010107@gmail.com> <50D8E0BD.4060402@iinet.net.au> <20121225203944.7dc737ed@digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20121225203944.7dc737ed@digimed.co.uk> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.4.6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 8f590f5d-0883-437e-b664-aff8824313c3 X-Archives-Hash: 10425f70d28afd3ff367f337cf77a588 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Tue, 25 Dec 2012 07:09:49 +0800, William Kenworthy wrote: > >> I used initrd's many years ago, and separate /usr and/ until on a redhat >> system I rebooted with an out of sequence initrd and kernel on a >> critical server (the sort of thing that puts your employment at risk >> when there are 20 odd developers using it ...) > That's the main reason I build the initramfs into the kernel rather than > as a separate file. That way you know that each kernel will always > continue to work, you can't screw up the initramfs of a working kernel. > > That was my thinking too. I never got it to work. I went to plan B which was dracut. Dale :-) :-) -- I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how you interpreted my words!