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On 10/16/2011 06:07 AM, Rich Freeman wrote: |
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> On Sat, Oct 15, 2011 at 6:07 PM, Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o> wrote: |
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>> I don't think it's a good idea for Gentoo to encourage users to have |
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>> /usr on a separate partition. We should probably remove the separate |
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>> /usr partition from "Code Listing 2.1: Filesystem usage example" in our |
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>> handbook: |
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>> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=1&chap=4#doc_chap2_pre1 |
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> Well, if we want to do that then we should also update: |
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> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-x86+raid+lvm2-quickinstall.xml |
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> Of course - that is an initramfs-less configuration, and such a thing |
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> would be nearly impossible to do with /usr on root unless you |
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> basically don't put anything of value on the LVM volumes in the first |
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> place. You could put everything but /boot on LVM and then use an |
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> initramfs. Or, you need to cover mounting /usr, /var, etc from the |
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> initramfs. |
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> And I don't think it is a good idea to NOT have a supported RAID/LVM |
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> configuration. That is hardly an edge case... |
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If those LVM volumes require userspace tools to mount, then I think it's |
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perfectly reasonable to expect them to use either an initramfs or a |
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simple linuxrc approach [1] to ensure that /usr is mounted before init |
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starts. |
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[1] |
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http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/msg_20749880f5bc5feda141488498729fe8.xml |
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Thanks, |
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Zac |
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