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From: "Canek Peláez Valdés" <caneko@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot
Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2011 18:29:10
Message-Id: CADPrc83ZxKLyvh+nTbicQw8A=EjRuwM3cun2E0mJu7B5gwr-fQ@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot by Michael Mol
1 On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 2:09 PM, Michael Mol <mikemol@×××××.com> wrote:
2 > On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 1:52 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés <caneko@×××××.com> wrote:
3 >> On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 1:23 PM, Dan Johansson <Dan.Johansson@×××.nu> wrote:
4 >>>> > This is definitely not a choice that the gentoo disto made; it is coming
5 >>>> > from several upstreams.
6 >>>>
7 >>>> I know it is from upstream but it still tastes really bad.   ;-)
8 >>>
9 >>> I can only agree!
10 >>> I am having /usr on a LVM volume on all systems (Gentoo and non Gentoo).
11 >>> This will be a MAJOR issue if /usr needs to be on /.
12 >>
13 >> It is my understanding that /usr does *not* need to be on /, only that
14 >> if you do, you will need an initramfs. Look at
15 >> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/72275 and the thread
16 >> that followed it.
17 >
18 > ...and now I know that my entirely UUID-driven fstab may stop working,
19 > if they choose not to add that particular "tweak/improvement".
20
21 ...or you could, you know, use the genkernel generated initramfs, or
22 dracut. Anyway, probably UUIDs and labels will be added to the minimal
23 initramfs (it is my undrestanding it's kinda easy to do). The
24 important thing is that it will be still supported.
25
26 Regards.
27 --
28 Canek Peláez Valdés
29 Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingeniería de la Computación
30 Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

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