Re: [gentoo-user] separate / and /usr to require initramfs 2013-11-01

[Canek Peláez Valdés]

On Sun, Sep 29, 2013 at 11:21 PM, Mark David Dumlao <madumlao@×××××.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 12:14 PM, Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org> wrote:
>> On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 01:00:06AM +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote
>>> >   * Separate /usr worked fine for AGES, until... Do you see a pattern
>>> >     developing here?
>>> >
>>> seperate /usr has stopped working fine AGES AGO. Just some setups were
>>> lucky enough not to stumble over the wreckage and fall into the shards.
>>
>>   I.e. the 99% who don't need initramfs before today.  Some corner case
>> exotic setups require complex solutions... no ifs/ands/ors/buts.  All
>> the complaining you hear is from the other 99% who's setup worked just
>> fine with the simple solution, suddenly finding the complex solution
>> rammed down their throats.
>
> funny. In the Linux community, running an "init thingy" is the 99%. We peeps
> with our custom kernels and builtin drivers are the 1%.

And growing smaller. I used to compile *everything* in my kernels; I
had a warm fuzzy feeling when in my laptop I did lsmod, and nothing
was listed.

Then I started to use an initramfs, and I found quite elegant that you
can put everything in modules, since from the initramfs udev  will
take care of loading the necessary (and *only* the necessary).

Nowadays I have everything in modules; filesystems even. I'm still
using custom kernels thought.

And, on a personal note, I find a little quaint (and somehow naïve) to
think about (for example) bluetooth as a "corner case", when most of
us walk with a bluetooth enabled Linux computer on our pockets.

I want Gentoo Linux on my cellphone. And it's probably not going to
happen with OpenRC.

Regards.
-- 
Canek Peláez Valdés
Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingeniería de la Computación
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México