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On Tue, 27 Mar 2012 23:32:22 +0000, Alan Mackenzie wrote: |
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> We're going to be stuck with some issues anyway, no matter how we cope |
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> with things. At the moment, I've got my /usr on RAID1, which I think |
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> doubles up the speed things load at. |
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Use 0.90 metadata and you can put / on RAID1 too. |
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> (It's on LVM2 too, but that's by |
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> the way.) I really don't want a fragile initramfs. Sooner or later, I'd |
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> put some slight glitch into it and the result would be a dead PC. |
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> Either that or I'll be scared stiff of touching it, which isn't how a |
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> Gentoo user is supposed to be. |
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An initramfs doesn't really need any maintenance, it does a couple of |
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simple tasks, basically mounting stuff, and then exits. Once working |
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there's no reason to change it. Even if you do and break things, it's |
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exactly the same as the situation with a broken kernel update, you just |
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boot with the previous one (that's one reason I leave the initramfs |
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inside the kernel, a working kernel will always work without any reliance |
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on other files). |
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Neil Bothwick |
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"We demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty!" |