1 |
On Sunday, October 16, 2011 12:33:51 PM Zac Medico wrote: |
2 |
> On 10/16/2011 06:07 AM, Rich Freeman wrote: |
3 |
> > On Sat, Oct 15, 2011 at 6:07 PM, Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o> wrote: |
4 |
> >> I don't think it's a good idea for Gentoo to encourage users to have |
5 |
> >> /usr on a separate partition. We should probably remove the separate |
6 |
> >> /usr partition from "Code Listing 2.1: Filesystem usage example" in |
7 |
> >> our |
8 |
> >> handbook: |
9 |
> >> |
10 |
> >> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=1&chap=4#d |
11 |
> >> oc_chap2_pre1> |
12 |
> > Well, if we want to do that then we should also update: |
13 |
> > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-x86+raid+lvm2-quickinstall.xml |
14 |
> > |
15 |
> > Of course - that is an initramfs-less configuration, and such a thing |
16 |
> > would be nearly impossible to do with /usr on root unless you |
17 |
> > basically don't put anything of value on the LVM volumes in the first |
18 |
> > place. You could put everything but /boot on LVM and then use an |
19 |
> > initramfs. Or, you need to cover mounting /usr, /var, etc from the |
20 |
> > initramfs. |
21 |
> > |
22 |
> > And I don't think it is a good idea to NOT have a supported RAID/LVM |
23 |
> > configuration. That is hardly an edge case... |
24 |
> |
25 |
> If those LVM volumes require userspace tools to mount, then I think it's |
26 |
> perfectly reasonable to expect them to use either an initramfs or a |
27 |
> simple linuxrc approach [1] to ensure that /usr is mounted before init |
28 |
> starts. |
29 |
> |
30 |
> [1] |
31 |
> http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/msg_20749880f5bc5feda141488498729fe8.x |
32 |
> ml |
33 |
|
34 |
If this approach works, would it be an option to add this to the LVM [1] and |
35 |
RAID+LVM [2] pages? |
36 |
|
37 |
[1] |
38 |
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/lvm2.xml |
39 |
|
40 |
[2] |
41 |
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-x86+raid+lvm2-quickinstall.xml |
42 |
|
43 |
-- |
44 |
Joost |