Re: [gentoo-dev] /usr vs. initramfs redux

[Dale]

Robin H. Johnson wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 03:47:18PM -0500, Dale wrote:
>
>>> On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 11:49:38AM -0500, William Hubbs wrote:
>>>
>>>> I am concerned about /var being included in this because of the
>>>> potential of filling up the root partition.
>>>>
>>> Err, I don't follow. How does mounting /var fill up the root partition?
>>>
>> If you take /var off its own partition and put it on /, then it will
>> fill up / instead of /var.  Filling up /var, not the end of the world.
>> Filling up / is a bad thing.
>>
> [snip]
> That is clear, but entirely irrelevant to my question. I _explicitly_
> support /var on a partition, that's why my entire initramfs proposal
> included it.
>
> I want to know what William had _against_ the mounting /var in my
> proposal, because that is what his statement implied.
>
>

For the record, I think /usr should work on a separate partition as 
well.  One reason, I would like to use LVM on all but my / file system.  
This is something I been fiddling with for a while.  Thing is, if /usr 
has to be on / then there is no point in me using LVM at all.  I don't 
want / on a LVM because that requires some sort of init* to work.  That 
is what I am trying to avoid.

My opinion, this is going to lead to one heck of a mess.  If it is 
coming from upstream, which it appears to be, then there needs to be 
someone to point the finger at.  I read somewhere it is because of 
Fedora so that helps some.  It's still going to be a mess.  My gut sees 
it coming.  I can already see where it is going to alter my plans hugely 
and I'm a desktop user.  I can't imagine a server or some complicated 
setup.  That is the ones I feel sorry for the most.  If they are not 
using some init* thing already, they appear to be needing one soon.  
It's just one more thing to have to deal with and worry about breaking.

Just my $0.02 worth and that ain't much. ;-)

Dale

:-)  :-)