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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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>> As per the documentation itself, Code Listing 2.1 is i believe an |
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>> example of what is possible, not what we are encouraging users to do. |
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>> That doc seems pretty clear that the default is partitioning scheme is |
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>> the default /boot,/,swap ... |
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> Why should our main installation docs mention a configuration that the |
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> vast majority of our users (all?) would be better off without? |
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You'd have to talk to the original authors to confirm but I believe this |
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would be to illustrate the possibilities and give users info that will |
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let them think about their partitioning scheme, instead of telling them |
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what to do. Essentially, to introduce and educate about partitions and |
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filesystems. |
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(it is the Gentoo Handbook, not the Gentoo Quick Install Howto, after all) |
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> What's the benefit of having /usr on a separate partition anyway? |
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I think that's covered rather generically in the guide -- different fs |
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type, won't run out of space on / if /usr fills up, different mount |
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options (ie, mounting ROOT ro and /usr rw); and of course if /usr is on |
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separate physical media (ie, a nice big RAID, while / is on, say, a |
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small SSD). |
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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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