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On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 07:32:20PM -0500, Bruce Hill wrote: |
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> On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 05:57:06PM -0500, Dale wrote: |
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> > Bruce Hill wrote: |
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> > > On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 05:33:02PM -0500, Dale wrote: |
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> > >> I'm hoping that since I use eudev, I don't have to worry about this. |
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> > >> If I do, this could get interesting, again. Dale |
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> > > Do you have /usr separate from / ? |
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> > Yep. From my understanding tho, eudev is not supposed to be affected by |
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> > this problem tho. |
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> > One reason for this being seperate, I have / and /boot on a regular |
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> > partition and everything else on LVM. Sometimes that /usr gets a bit |
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> > full. It's not so bad after I moved all the portage stuff out and put |
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> > it in /var. Now I have to watch /var too. lol |
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> > Dale |
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> You need to read the blog post listed in the news item, as it's not just |
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> specific to udev anymore. |
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Bruce is correct; This issue is not specific to udev/eudev/mdev. |
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I suppose that what I am about to say isn't really relevant, but it is |
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unfortunate over the past year that people blamed udev specifically for |
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this. It is true that it does things that don't work if /usr isn't |
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mounted, but eudev does as well, since it is basically the same code. |
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If you read flameeyes' blog post, you will get a better idea of what the |
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issue involves. It is the entire boot process and how to deal with which |
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software is considered critical for booting. |
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There is no reason to rebuild your server; we aren't telling you you |
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have to merge /usr into /. The only thing we are saying is that you will |
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need to use an initramfs if you are going to keep them separate. |
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I have a pretty simple setup, but I have been using an initramfs which I |
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built some time ago with genkernel and I barely know it is there. |
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I recommend that you familiarize yourself with genkernel or dracut and |
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build an initramfs. Since nothing is changing until at least |
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Nov 1, you can test your initramfs by adding an entry to your boot |
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loader configuration that uses it and get it set up correctly while you |
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can still fall back on booting without it. |
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I do not recommend that anyone who has separate /usr "do nothing" at |
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this point. Please re-read the second paragraph of the news item. |
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Thanks, |
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William |
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