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...and recombining again.. |
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On 2011-10-17, at 1:24 PM, Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o> wrote: |
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> On 10/17/2011 09:02 AM, Ian Stakenvicius wrote: |
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>> Splitting this up since i'm kind of starting two threads here.. |
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>> ----- Documentation discussion ----- |
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>> On 16/10/11 02:44 PM, Zac Medico wrote: |
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>>> Well, you'll have to define the meaning of "support" in this context. I |
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>>> simply said that it shouldn't be encouraged, with me reason being that |
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>>> it tends to add unnecessary complexity (in violation of the KISS |
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>>> principle [1]). |
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>> I would agree with this (that it shouldn't be encouraged), but I don't |
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>> think the Handbook is encouraging it now, as it is written.. |
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> It depends on how you define "encouraging" in this context. The fact |
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> that /usr is shown as a separate partition might be considered |
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> "suggestive" if not "encouraging". If a user takes that suggestion |
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> without knowing the consequences (special initramfs or linuxrc init |
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> wrapper configuration), then then it could cause some disappointment |
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> when they finally discover the consequences. |
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>> ----- Support/implementation discussion ----- |
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>>> ... If people want that, I think it's perfectly |
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>>> reasonable to expect them to use either an initramfs or a simple linuxrc |
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>>> approach [2] to ensure that /usr is mounted before init starts. |
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>> ...this would make sense, although in terms of "support" i think it |
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>> would be appropriate that we would provide this linuxrc wrapper on any |
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>> init system that needs /usr mounted. |
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> If someone wants to take on the burden of maintaining an init wrapper |
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> like that, then I guess that's fine. However, I wouldn't consider it to |
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> be an absolute requirement. I think it would be fine (maybe preferable) |
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> to simply provide a doc that describes how to mount /usr via an |
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> initramfs or linuxrc init wrapper. Such a doc would only be needed by |
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> those users who require that /usr be on a separate partition. |
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This makes sense. So the Handbook could be updated with a caveat after the large partition example to say something like "/usr on it's own partition needs special consideration, please see XXXXX" ... this works. |
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