Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot

[Mick]

On Saturday 20 Aug 2011 13:59:42 David W Noon wrote:
> On Sat, 20 Aug 2011 03:48:18 -0500, Dale wrote about "Re:
> [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot":
>
> [snip]
>
> >I wish you could convince the devs of that.  I already have /var on
> >its own and was planning to put /usr on its own.  I'm not now tho.
> >Looks like /, /boot, /home and that's it for the OS part.  It
> >downright sucks.
>
> I have also been following the discussion on gentoo-dev, although I
> currently only lurk there.  I was going to register and post with a
> suggestion that everything should be on the root partition; that way we
> could rename it C: and be compliant with the "industry standard".
>
> However, it gets worse: one cannot safely fsck a partition or logical
> volume once it has been mounted.  As things currently stand, there are
> no statically linked fsck modules for ext2/3/4, as static linkage was
> dropped from e2fsprogs about 3 years ago.  This means for fsck to run
> inside an initramfs or intrd, the image will have to contain glibc,
> libpthread and a whole slew of other large libraries in order to run
> e2fsck with dynamic linkage.  The initramfs will end up being *many*
> times larger than the kernel itself. [On my systems, the vmlinuz file
> is only about 1.8 megs, and glibc alone makes that look really puny.]
>
> Welcome to progress.

This is madness.  Is there anything we can do to stop it?
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Regards,
Mick