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From: "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Cc: chithanh@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Warn users not to do separate /usr partition without proper initramfs in the handbook?
Date: Tue, 02 Aug 2011 08:02:16
Message-Id: 20110802100250.44deb8ba@pomiocik.lan
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Warn users not to do separate /usr partition without proper initramfs in the handbook? by "Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn"
1 On Sat, 30 Jul 2011 16:28:54 +0200
2 Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn <chithanh@g.o> wrote:
3
4 > Samuli Suominen schrieb:
5 > >
6 > > Someone mentioned NFS mount on /usr. Do we have other reasons? How
7 > > many users that might be?
8 >
9 > If you have / encrypted, then you can leave /usr unencrypted as it
10 > contains no secrets. Also /usr can remain mounted read-only most of
11 > the time, so there is a reduced chance of accidental corruption.
12 > I don't know the number of users who might want this, and I imagine it
13 > is difficult to count them.
14
15 BTW doesn't encrypting rootfs require initramfs anyway?
16
17 --
18 Best regards,
19 Michał Górny

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