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On Wed, Sep 07, 2011 at 07:22:46AM -0400, Rich Freeman wrote: |
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> On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 5:27 AM, Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o> wrote: |
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> > On Wed, 07 Sep 2011 12:17:21 +0300 |
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> > Alexey Shvetsov <alexxy@g.o> wrote: |
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> > > Moving things as openrc to /usr/libexec will effectevely barake old |
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> > > systems with separtae / and /usr. So it isnt good idea |
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> > Old systems should migrate to initramfs, like it was already pointed |
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> > out before. Breakage is already there, you just don't notice it. |
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> Agreed, and once the official docs are updated and a working initramfs is |
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> available we can consider moving forward with things that break separate |
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> /usr. That seemed to be the general consensus on the other thread. |
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> Right now migrating to initramfs won't do any good, as Gentoo doesn't have |
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> an initramfs available which mounts /usr. No doubt once Fedora gets theirs |
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> working we'll be able to copy it (assuming it is FOSS), or we can write our |
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> own. |
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I actually have a skeleton for an initramfs that does this here, I just |
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haven't figured out the last step, making an ebuild for it. |
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I think we can do a very simple initramfs that just mounts /usr/and /var |
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without dracut, but if you are using lvm, etc, you will have to use |
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dracut. |
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William |
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