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On Mon, Dec 24, 2012 at 01:23:16PM -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: |
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> On Mon, Dec 24, 2012 at 12:00 PM, Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> <SNIP> |
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> > The problems with that is these: It worked ALL these years, why should |
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> > it not now? I have / on a traditional partition which is not going to |
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> > resize easily. If I put / on LVM, I need a init thingy. I don't want a |
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> > init thingy |
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> Is that really true? Do you _really_ care whether an 'init thingy' exists |
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> on your system, or is this energy about it really based in something else? |
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> I'm just not understanding the resistance so I'm curious. |
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> I don't like, really don't like, the work that currently goes into making |
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> my 'init thingy' work. All the Gentoo docs about creating hierarchies by |
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> hand and populating them with files and then compressing it. All that |
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> drives me nuts. It should be 100% automatic, and probably is with the |
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> right tools which I haven't found. |
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> But I'm not understanding why you are so against it in totality. It would |
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> be one thing to say that it's too much work. That I understand, but not |
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> wanting one seems a bit overboard to me... |
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Once upon a time (for 7 years) Slackware was my distro, and not only as a |
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user. They still have a script (mkinitrd) which only asks a minimal amount of |
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information from the user to run a simple one-liner and create initrd.gz. |
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Gentoo had mkinitrd once upon a time, but it's now in attic. Somewhere, |
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sometime, for some reason, initramfs (inital ram filesystem) became vogue for |
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the Gentoo camp, rather than initrd (initial ram disk image), and mkinitrd got |
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retired. |
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Since there are so very many ways to boot a system, with / on RAID0, /usr on |
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LVM, and any other number of combinations on this LAN, I didn't bother to |
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investigate why the Gentoo devs retired mkinitrd. |
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So long as you're not going to let this thread die, I've thrown that in the |
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mix and maybe someone will come up with the *real* *reason* that mkinitrd, |
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such a simple method to create an initrd, is in attic rather than portage. |
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