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On 01/06/2012 07:10 PM, Michael Weber wrote: |
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> On 01/05/2012 03:40 AM, Zac Medico wrote: |
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>> The FHS notion of "root filesystem as a recovery partition" existed long |
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>> before the relatively modern development of things like busybox and |
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>> initramfs made it more practical to use an initramfs as a recovery |
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>> partition. Anyone who wouldn't prefer to use an initramfs for their |
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>> "recover partition" probably just doesn't realize how well suited an |
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>> initramfs is for the job. It's so well suited for the job that it makes |
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>> the old FHS notion of "root filesystem as a recovery partition" seem quaint. |
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> Please stop hailing to busybox. I think it's a bulk load of faulty, half |
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> implemented code that's not worth the time compiling. |
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> You can do better w/ the real tools. (Not my crappy little initrd |
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> script, but the well established, fully operational, as used to programms) |
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> http://xmw.de/dotfiles/scripts/mkinitramfs.sh |
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That seems like an awfully large initramfs to load into memory for every |
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boot, just to have it wiped from memory after switching to the real |
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root. It's fine as long as you're not trying to shave every last |
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microsecond off of your boot time though. |
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An alternative approach to a having a bulky initramfs "recovery |
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partition" like yours would be to put the content of a livecd/usb |
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recovery disk onto a spare partition, and configure your lean busybox |
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initramfs to mount that as the root if something goes wrong with your |
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real root. |
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Thanks, |
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Zac |
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