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 3DCD51381F3 for ; Sun, 29 Sep 2013 21:38:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5B18DE0A70; Sun, 29 Sep 2013 21:38:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wg0-f47.google.com (mail-wg0-f47.google.com [74.125.82.47]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 37A82E0999 for ; Sun, 29 Sep 2013 21:38:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-wg0-f47.google.com with SMTP id f12so4687217wgh.26 for ; Sun, 29 Sep 2013 14:38:25 -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=+5v/rifpUEwCjrhanfHj4L7zTdjvPriSz29NW6pHtjE=; b=uHZDXqBHX6CNJynqfRx7i2ugr6m6t07KRfDBOvqhMFbHO8737oNtcjbAahaybbG1nT t/HV2QgdljVZOa4ZftcUz0tfYofPVEXy+z67KQu8glIavJh0P2xalkWy04b8+Hs3nhMJ rCiNxrLseE3uQmPrrbtuE1abNVxXDJgNM04pwXDfzli+11CvT5zuvzHTd44qLE2WhQOD IvoLRvxII7oXrwVT5bNEyPCjXSPegsxiHK+uFA6Y//0JuzL3Pk1SoAInZnQ5p+5UOOcI sZoZY2P0Wp4vYU8B3FHxE0bxVfcOZxWb5ivvrS5xjGeqrYtg43uuX5h+bZJ/g9NzBvgD DF5Q== X-Received: by 10.180.185.97 with SMTP id fb1mr11198918wic.61.1380490705801; Sun, 29 Sep 2013 14:38:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [172.20.0.40] (196-210-102-121.dynamic.isadsl.co.za. [196.210.102.121]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id b11sm19587846wik.1.1969.12.31.16.00.00 (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Sun, 29 Sep 2013 14:38:25 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <52489CC3.6080003@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 29 Sep 2013 23:33:55 +0200 From: Alan McKinnon User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.0 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] separate / and /usr to require initramfs 2013-11-01 References: <5246BE35.3010408@libertytrek.org> <5246D674.1010806@hadt.biz> <5246F07F.8050100@gmail.com> <524716C0.203@hadt.biz> <52471D5B.2020506@gmail.com> <52483E04.4040900@libertytrek.org> <52484627.1020102@gmail.com> <5248656F.3060602@libertytrek.org> <524870B4.8090905@gmail.com> <52487531.8080902@libertytrek.org> <20130929212320.GA335@waltdnes.org> <20130929223230.39f4247a@digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20130929223230.39f4247a@digimed.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: f70bd982-a16d-4b27-be8e-fcec296c3de6 X-Archives-Hash: a612c89cf0332b7f7844705b0ae008b7 On 29/09/2013 23:32, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sun, 29 Sep 2013 17:23:20 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: > >> Here's my version of "LVM without the overhead of LVM" to allow >> maximum flexibity, without the overhead of LVM. > > This gives you one of the advantages of LVM, the ability to use space on > a single drive as your needs change. It doesn't allow you t use multiple > drives, use different filesystems or filesystem options for different > mount points, prevent one filesystem from stealing space from another > (although you can do this with quotas) or use snapshots. > > And it also prevents him from using The One True Filesystem That Will Rule Them All and In the Darkness Bind Them: ZFS -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckinnon@gmail.com