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 84E661381F3 for ; Fri, 30 Aug 2013 14:42:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5B3BCE0E1F; Fri, 30 Aug 2013 14:42:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wi0-f173.google.com (mail-wi0-f173.google.com [209.85.212.173]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 40ABDE0C3B for ; Fri, 30 Aug 2013 14:42:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-wi0-f173.google.com with SMTP id ey11so6315066wid.0 for ; Fri, 30 Aug 2013 07:42:03 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=H1ukYbbm3kjuVFoxMvi/9UCN0nGyCyeGmEBAKQlXy2c=; b=B29TWCRY9ks+MjTEoTWTSfvWxpPX56TWhQ9tyrWisuTrM8XmLMkanuTZts2Ph6hvUB 8U2fhgMHjJPntU5UezGItNfgeMsYix7NgQa9EoD8oRCrDaARUloW3WcQj+VZcqCOWbcn /4Ft00rB5ULnZd+SjQARKbb9P8vZuFZMqgP+8y+BXeW+Ms4uuDP4hZ4v2EUJ8sNVgG1T dQLeh7reEaKjnW9RUxSwdqnjOlKOTtaEkB7cyNAmCXX7BMdUqNbjMITbXAi0hvnsAK5x s19B7AshqDbTI1kxjeaScqmgiZcHnrYQ51yyqyRCjS/ts8bLQNgxi4Rv4JGzkhest6YO VT8Q== X-Received: by 10.194.11.38 with SMTP id n6mr11481557wjb.25.1377873722816; Fri, 30 Aug 2013 07:42:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [172.20.0.41] (196-210-102-25.dynamic.isadsl.co.za. [196.210.102.25]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id i3sm4735591wiw.7.1969.12.31.16.00.00 (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Fri, 30 Aug 2013 07:42:02 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <5220AE61.8030303@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2013 16:38:25 +0200 From: Alan McKinnon User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130809 Thunderbird/17.0.8 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] where did lvm installation guide go? References: <87r4dcbisz.fsf@nyu.edu> <87sixschz7.fsf@nyu.edu> <87wqn4ar3w.fsf@nyu.edu> <52203746.3090203@gmail.com> <522046B3.3060209@gmail.com> <5220A68D.1080407@libertytrek.org> <5220AE1F.20601@libertytrek.org> In-Reply-To: <5220AE1F.20601@libertytrek.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 1881789e-44eb-4689-bcd9-edc2f284ad0c X-Archives-Hash: 6cda1d047d3f95caf48f8a2d2a19efe2 On 30/08/2013 16:37, Tanstaafl wrote: >> And for a good reason: is braindead. > > Again - it is only braindead if you accept the basic premise that it > 'makes sense' to put files critical to the boot process into /usr. > > Personally, I think it only 'makes sense' to put files critical to the > boot process into /boot. It's not the boot process. It's the startup-to-early-init process. Or put another way, the entire start process up to the point where all of /usr is reliably available. "boot" is used here as very loose slang -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckinnon@gmail.com