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From: Mike Gilbert <floppym@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: locations of binaries and separate /usr
Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2012 04:18:42
Message-Id: CAJ0EP42dOMzLQNyPnXDNX9OafgQbiUjH-_CMZava0n2GX9OAWQ@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: locations of binaries and separate /usr by Dale
1 On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 10:38 PM, Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote:
2 > Michał Górny wrote:
3 >>
4 >> On Tue, 10 Jan 2012 19:14:52 +0100
5 >> Enrico Weigelt<weigelt@×××××.de>  wrote:
6 >>
7 >>> * Micha?? Górny<mgorny@g.o>  schrieb:
8 >>>
9 >>>> Does working hard involve compiling even more packages statically?
10 >>>
11 >>> I guess, he means keeping udev in / ?
12 >>
13 >> Because adding 80 KiB of initramfs hurts so much? We should then put
14 >> more work just to ensure that admin doesn't have to waste 15 minutes to
15 >> recompile the kernel (if necessary), create an initramfs and add it to
16 >> bootloader config?
17 >>
18 >
19 > 80Kbs?  You sure about that?  I somehow failed to mention this before.  I
20 > noticed it when I saw another reply to this post.  Reality check:
21 >
22 > root@fireball / # ls -al /boot/initramfs-3.*
23 > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5444240 Jan  1 07:24 /boot/initramfs-3.1.5-gentoo.img
24 > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5515132 Jan  9 07:57 /boot/initramfs-3.2.0-r1.img
25 > root@fireball / #
26 >
27 > That's using the dracut tool.  Somehow, over 50Mbs is not anywhere close to
28 > 80Kbs, or maybe my calculator is broken.
29 >
30
31 Your calculator is off by a power of 10.

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Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: locations of binaries and separate /usr Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>