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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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Gentoo Dev |
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http://xmw.de/ |
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