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On Mar 14, 2012 11:19 PM, "Mike Edenfield" <kutulu@××××××.org> wrote: |
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> > From: Alan McKinnon [mailto:alan.mckinnon@×××××.com] |
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> > Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2012 3:14 AM |
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> > To: gentoo-user@l.g.o |
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> > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: LVM, /usr and really really bad thoughts. |
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> > On Tue, 13 Mar 2012 11:54:58 +0700 |
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> > Pandu Poluan <pandu@××××××.info> wrote: |
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> > > > The idea of trying to launch udevd and initialize devices without |
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> > > > the software, installed in /usr, which is required by those devices |
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> > > > is a configuration that causes problems in many real-world, |
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> > > > practical situations. |
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> > > > |
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> > > > The requirement of having /usr on the same partition as / is also a |
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> > > > configuration that causes problems in many real-world, practical |
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> > > > situations. |
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> > > I quite often read about this, and after some thinking, I have to |
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> > > ask: why? |
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> > I've also thought about this and I also want to ask why? |
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> To be honest, I was simply taking for granted that all of the other people |
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> on this list who made a huge fuss about this were not lying. |
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> I, personally, have never had a use or need for a separate /usr; I know |
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how |
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> big (approximately) /usr is going to get and I give it that much space. I |
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> guess I'm fortunate not to have ever managed a server where the hard |
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drives |
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> were so tiny as to make that impractical. |
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> This whole udev/initrd/mdev/etc problem, for me, has been little more than |
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> an entertaining diversion, since I've been using a supported setup from |
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the |
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> start. However, I'm confident that there are legitimate reasons why some |
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> sysadmins use certain configurations which require / and /usr to be |
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> different partitions; I'm less confident that initrd is not the real |
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> solution to their "problem" but that's not really my call to make. |
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> I'm *very* confident that a dismissal of this issue as "the ego if one or |
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> two guys who happen to write udev" is a blatant oversimplification that |
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does |
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> not do justice to the complexities involved in making modern hardware |
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work. |
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This email [1] (and the correction email right afterwards) should give some |
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much-needed perspective on why we're driving full-speed toward an |
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overturned manure truck (which some of us, e.g., Walter and me, are |
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desperately pulling at the handbrakes). |
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[1] http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/busybox/2011-September/076713.html |
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Rgds, |
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