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On Friday, December 21, 2012 12:20:45 PM William Hubbs wrote: |
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> On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 06:36:05PM +0100, J. Roeleveld wrote: |
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> > On Friday, December 21, 2012 10:21:02 AM William Hubbs wrote: |
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> > > On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 04:04:31PM +0100, J. Roeleveld wrote: |
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> > > > On Friday, December 21, 2012 09:38:36 AM Rich Freeman wrote: |
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> > > > > On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 8:51 AM, Ian Stakenvicius <axs@g.o> |
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> > wrote: |
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> > > > > > On 21/12/12 03:10 AM, J. Roeleveld wrote: |
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> > > > > >> An init* needs to be kept in sync with the rest of the system as |
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> > > > > >> well. |
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> > > > > > |
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> > > > > > Just to be clear, by "init*" you mean {initrd,initramfs} , |
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> > > > > > correct? |
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> > > > > |
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> > > > > Seems likely. |
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> > > > > |
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> > > > > However, for the most part it really only needs to be kept in sync |
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> > > > > with the kernel. Smarter ones like dracut that might do things like |
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> > > > > keep a copy of mdadm.conf internally might need to be updated when |
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> > > > > your disks change, and so on. In general, however, they only need |
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> > > > > changes when either your kernel changes, or the path to the root |
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> > > > > filesystem changes (by path I mean mdadm/lvm/nfs/etc). |
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> > > > And with the "move to /usr", also when that changes. |
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> > > > Granted, on most systems it won't actually move often once it's |
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> > > > installed. |
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> > > Can you be more specific here? I do not understand what you mean. |
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> The /usr merge doesn't break an init*, so I don't know how you are seeing |
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> them as related. |
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Who are you replying to here? |
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I never said that moving everything into /usr will break an init*. |
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Joost |