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The 03/01/12, Pandu Poluan wrote: |
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> On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 20:13, Nicolas Sebrecht <nsebrecht@×××××.fr> wrote: |
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> > But servers have enough ressources to run udev and any required |
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> > initramfs to mount /usr. |
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> No, no, no, you got it the wrong way around. |
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> It's not udev *per se* that I -- as a server admin -- want to get rid of. |
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> It's the initramfs. |
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> And I also want to put /usr in a separate partition. |
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> The problem is that, judging from where udev is going in upstream, we |
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> will be forced to use initramfs, or put /usr in / |
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I know. It's the "I want to get the rid of initramfs" thing that looks |
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crazy to me. |
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> > As initramfs is a prooven working solution, all distributions I know use |
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> > it either by default or if needed. |
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> Then again, using initramfs is yet-another-component waiting to break. |
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> Knowing Murphy's Law, it will one day fuck up everything. |
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And the mdev alternative won't follow this law? |
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Nicolas Sebrecht |
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