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On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 1:20 PM, David Leverton |
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<levertond@××××××××××.com> wrote: |
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> On Saturday 30 July 2011 14:55:23 Samuli Suominen wrote: |
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>> Someone mentioned NFS mount on /usr. Do we have other reasons? How |
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>> many users that might be? |
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> From /etc/conf.d/fsck, seems like a reason to keep the / FS as small as |
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> possible to reduce the amount of time spent waiting during boot: |
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Well, that only really has a benefit if the system can do something |
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useful between the time that root is mounted and /usr is mounted, |
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which is probably a "no." |
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In any case, I see this whole situation as being a bit of laziness - |
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individual packages are just breaking the rules rather than trying to |
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reform them. However, if this is the way of the universe I'd be fine |
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with just updating our docs and tools to handle /usr mounted by |
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initramfs. Almost all other distros use initramfs 100% of the time - |
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Gentoo is a bit unusual in that I'd say a good chunk of our users |
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don't use one at all. |
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Rich |
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