Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot

[Pandu Poluan]

Welllll...

... the Gentoo project can always fork e2fsprogs ...

... but who will maintain it, then?

Rgds,


On 2011-08-20, Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com> wrote:
> On Saturday 20 Aug 2011 13:59:42 David W Noon wrote:
>> On Sat, 20 Aug 2011 03:48:18 -0500, Dale wrote about "Re:
>> [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot":
>>
>> [snip]
>>
>> >I wish you could convince the devs of that.  I already have /var on
>> >its own and was planning to put /usr on its own.  I'm not now tho.
>> >Looks like /, /boot, /home and that's it for the OS part.  It
>> >downright sucks.
>>
>> I have also been following the discussion on gentoo-dev, although I
>> currently only lurk there.  I was going to register and post with a
>> suggestion that everything should be on the root partition; that way we
>> could rename it C: and be compliant with the "industry standard".
>>
>> However, it gets worse: one cannot safely fsck a partition or logical
>> volume once it has been mounted.  As things currently stand, there are
>> no statically linked fsck modules for ext2/3/4, as static linkage was
>> dropped from e2fsprogs about 3 years ago.  This means for fsck to run
>> inside an initramfs or intrd, the image will have to contain glibc,
>> libpthread and a whole slew of other large libraries in order to run
>> e2fsck with dynamic linkage.  The initramfs will end up being *many*
>> times larger than the kernel itself. [On my systems, the vmlinuz file
>> is only about 1.8 megs, and glibc alone makes that look really puny.]
>>
>> Welcome to progress.
>
> This is madness.  Is there anything we can do to stop it?
> --
> Regards,
> Mick
>


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