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On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 2:02 PM, Robin H. Johnson <robbat2@g.o> wrote: |
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> On Wed, Sep 07, 2011 at 07:22:46AM -0400, Rich Freeman wrote: |
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> > Right now migrating to initramfs won't do any good, as Gentoo doesn't |
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> have |
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> > an initramfs available which mounts /usr. No doubt once Fedora gets |
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> theirs |
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> > working we'll be able to copy it (assuming it is FOSS), or we can write |
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> our |
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> > own. |
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> The options for this are looking like: |
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> - static initramfs that I proposed (WilliamH has an early prototype) |
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> - genkernel |
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> - dracut |
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> WilliamH's prototype seems to mostly work, I just want to polish it some |
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> and then release it. I think we can offer it as an easy default to |
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> users, since it doesn't need to be rebuilt when the kernel is rebuilt at |
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> all. |
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Agreed on all the comments along these lines. I just wanted to suggest that |
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we not let the effort of breaking separate /usr get out too far ahead of the |
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effort to un-break it. :) As we can see from the openrc/handbook situation |
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it is easy to let the docs get out of sync (not pointing fingers here - |
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coordination is just an issue anytime you have many hands). |
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Rich |