On Feb 15, 2012 9:45 PM, "mike@trausch.us" <mike@trausch.us> wrote:
>
> On 02/15/2012 05:58 AM, Pandu Poluan wrote:
> > Found this blogpost serendipitously:
> >
> > http://mark.orbum.net/2011/11/15/the-pan-pipes-of-gentoo-linux-always-at-the-source/
> >
> > so, are we brothers? :-)
> >
>
> But, but... you don't _need_ an initrd to have root on LVM!  You just
> need LVM built-in and GRUB 2!
>
> *ducks*
>

Eh? You don't need to duck from me... I am one of those guys who are against initrd/initramfs :-P

That said, anyone read his description of other distros? Somehow I got the vibes that Gentoo's is the one where he didn't explicitly point out something bad against; only a lamentation that he really don't want to spend too much time compiling everything.

The blog writer's closing paragraph is very poetic it hurts; for I'm about to leave my beloved Gentoo servers behind...

Rgds,