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On Sat, 2012-03-17 at 17:43 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: |
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> On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 1:15 PM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> > On Sat, 17 Mar 2012 08:10:35 -0700 |
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> > Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> >> 4) I don't use a separate /usr so I don't need any of this. I suspect |
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> >> most casual Gentoo users like me are pretty much the same. |
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> > This news item in no way applies to you and you are completely |
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> > unaffected. You can safely update openrc and udev. |
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> Yeah, that was my reading of it, and I appreciate your response. |
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> In this case, and I don't know why, I have this feeling that this |
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> thing is gonna turn out badly and I'd be better being prepared on the |
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> initramfs side of things. I did have to use one to bring up my server |
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> with / on a RAID6, not because I needed it long term but in the short |
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> term I couldn't determine how mdadm was numbering the RAID so that I |
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> could get grub.conf correct. I'm somehow a bot worried something is |
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> going to slip by the devs and I'd be better off having an initramfs |
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> already running on the box when I do allow the upgrades. |
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> Planning on giving Dracut a try. |
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> Thanks, |
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> Mark |
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Definitely be careful! - I went the genkernel route and except for |
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laptops use LVM and separate partitions. |
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Be very wary of using an existing kernel config - there are a few |
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unexpected things that I had to enable to get an already working, but |
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customised kernel config to boot properly after genkernel used it. I |
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still need to cut the config down some more to speed booting (restrict |
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the autodetect to hardware I actually have). |
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genkernel doesnt support suspend/resume without patching so beware if |
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thats a consideration. |
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I do get the feeling I now have a less reliable, flakier system with |
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more demands on admin time because everytime I upgrade I will have more |
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issues. I might eventually do away with the separate /usr if they ever |
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get it read only and reliable, but thats likely to a way off yet and |
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none of my machines use a big enough (non LVM) / to hold it anyway. |
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BillK |
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