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On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 11:46 AM, Greg KH <gregkh@g.o> wrote: |
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> Also, again, this is an upstream issue, based on the packages you have |
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> installed, not anything that has changed in the distro itself. Upstream |
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> is also working to resolve the issue already, by mounting /usr from the |
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> initramfs, to keep this sane, so people shouldn't really have to worry |
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> about this too much, unless they don't use an initramfs... |
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Agree. The news was a little shocking to me actually - I had no idea |
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people were doing this. I suspect it just happened as things like |
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udev went from enhancements used when you inserted something in a |
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pcmcia slot to core features used to get everything from your hard |
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drive to your mouse to work. |
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The more I think about it, the more it seems like we're stuck going |
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the initramfs route unless we want to become Gentoo vs the world. |
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Dropping support for udev clearly isn't going to be a practical |
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option, and the number of changes we'd have to make to get it and its |
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dependencies out of /usr is going to be a challenge. |
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I suspect that in the end we're either going to end up requiring |
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initramfs, or we're going to end up implementing what is otherwise in |
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dracut in openrc to get those drives mounted much earlier. |
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Gentoo is a bit unusual in not requiring initramfs in the first place. |
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We can get away it mostly because everybody customizes their |
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kernels/grub/etc anyway. If you're a binary distro and want a one |
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bzImage/grub.conf fits all then you need a fancy initramfs to make it |
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work. |
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Rich |
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