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On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 9:27 PM, William Hubbs <williamh@g.o> wrote: |
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> here is the udev 181 unmasking news item. |
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> If all goes well, this will be committed to the tree on 3/14 UTC. |
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I guess this might be OK for unstable, but before this goes stable we |
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really need to improve the docs around this. As far as I can tell |
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neither the genkernel nor dracut docs have specific instructions about |
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how to handle mounting /usr. Since having a separate /usr is often |
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the result of having a more complex configuration (nfs, lvm, mdraid, |
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etc), instructions explaining how things work and how to handle |
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variations is pretty important. Perhaps genkernel automagically does |
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the right thing in some cases, but I know that dracut does not unless |
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you properly configure it. I doubt either tool will handle more |
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complex situations without some scripting. |
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I'm not really asking for automation here - just documentation and |
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reasonable stability in how things work. |
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Again, this is likely more of a concern before this is stabilized. |
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However, knowing what I went through to get my bind-mounted /usr on |
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LVM+mdraid working with dracut, I can imagine that any unstable users |
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with tricky setups could face a fun weekend. |
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Perhaps a suggestion for the news item. I'd recommend that anybody |
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who needs an initramfs to mount /usr get that working BEFORE they |
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upgrade udev. This situation is a heck of a lot easier to figure out |
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if the system still can be booted when the initramfs doesn't work. |
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Rich |
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