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From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Cc: dwnoon@××××××××.com
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] InitRAMFS - boot expert sought
Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2012 09:04:22
Message-Id: 20120329102836.3ea5e242@khamul.example.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] InitRAMFS - boot expert sought by David W Noon
1 On Thu, 29 Mar 2012 00:20:04 +0100
2 David W Noon <dwnoon@××××××××.com> wrote:
3
4 > On Thu, 29 Mar 2012 00:26:40 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote about Re:
5 > [gentoo-user] InitRAMFS - boot expert sought:
6 >
7 > > On Wed, 28 Mar 2012 23:01:24 +0100
8 > > David W Noon <dwnoon@××××××××.com> wrote:
9 > [snip]
10 > > > With the pending changes to udev scripts, you could well need /var
11 > > > -- and anything else -- before udev starts. So it is in the same
12 > > > category as /usr.
13 > >
14 > > Maybe, maybe not.
15 > >
16 > > However, no-one apart from you is even suggesting such a thing. For
17 > > my part I'm going to ignore that possibility and concentrate on
18 > > those things that are being seriously suggested.
19 >
20 > The Gentoo developers have been discussing just that. The reason is
21 > that many of the daemons that can be started by udev scripts require
22 > work files on /var, so we could well need /var mounted too.
23
24 Which begs the obvious question,
25
26 Why on earth is udev launching daemons in EARLY BOOT?
27
28 --
29 Alan McKinnnon
30 alan.mckinnon@×××××.com

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Re: [gentoo-user] InitRAMFS - boot expert sought David W Noon <dwnoon@××××××××.com>
[gentoo-user] Re: InitRAMFS - boot expert sought Nicolas Sebrecht <nsebrecht@×××××.fr>