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On Sun, Dec 23, 2012 at 08:39:41PM +0000, Neil Bothwick wrote |
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> You are only considering the case of /usr being on a plain hard disk |
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> partition, what if it in on an LVM volume, or encrypted (or both) |
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> of mounted over the network? All of these require something to be |
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> run before they can be mounted, and if that cannot be run until udev |
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> has started, we have been painted into a corner. |
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I agree that there will always be a small number of corner-cases where |
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an initr* is required. What annoys me, and probably a lot of other |
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people, is the-dog-in-the-manger attitude |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dog_in_the_Manger where some people |
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seem to say "If my weirdo, corner-case system can't boot a separate /usr |
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without an initr* then, by-golly, I'll see to it that *NOBODY* can boot |
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a separate /usr without an initr*". |
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Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org> |
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I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications |
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