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From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone switched to eudev yet?
Date: Sun, 23 Dec 2012 16:25:52
Message-Id: 20121223182037.1553813f@khamul.example.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone switched to eudev yet? by nunojsilva@ist.utl.pt (Nuno J. Silva)
1 On Sun, 23 Dec 2012 12:22:24 +0200
2 nunojsilva@×××××××.pt (Nuno J. Silva) wrote:
3
4 > On 2012-12-18, Alan McKinnon wrote:
5 >
6 > > On Tue, 18 Dec 2012 09:08:53 -0500
7 > > Michael Mol <mikemol@×××××.com> wrote:
8 > >
9 > >
10 > > This sentence summarizes my understanding of your post nicely:
11 > >
12 > >> Now, why is /usr special? It's because it contains executable code
13 > >> the system might require while launching.
14 > >
15 > > Now there are only two approaches that could solve that problem:
16 > >
17 > > 1. Avoid it entirely
18 > > 2. Deal with it using any of a variety of bootstrap techniques
19 > >
20 > > #1 is handled by policy, whereby any code the system might require
21 > > while launching is not in /usr.
22 > >
23 > > #2 already has a solution, it's called an init*. Other solutions
24 > > exist but none are as elegant as a throwaway temporary filesystem
25 > > in RAM.
26 >
27 > What about just mounting /usr as soon as the system boots?
28
29
30 Please read the thread next time. The topic under discussion is
31 solutions to the problem of not being able to do exactly that.
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34 --
35 Alan McKinnon
36 alan.mckinnon@×××××.com

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[gentoo-user] Re: Anyone switched to eudev yet? nunojsilva@ist.utl.pt (Nuno J. Silva)