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On Tue, 25 Dec 2012 07:09:49 +0800, William Kenworthy wrote: |
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> I used initrd's many years ago, and separate /usr and/ until on a redhat |
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> system I rebooted with an out of sequence initrd and kernel on a |
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> critical server (the sort of thing that puts your employment at risk |
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> when there are 20 odd developers using it ...) |
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That's the main reason I build the initramfs into the kernel rather than |
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as a separate file. That way you know that each kernel will always |
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continue to work, you can't screw up the initramfs of a working kernel. |
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Neil Bothwick |
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If Bill Gates had a dime for every time a Windows box crashed... |
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...Oh, wait a minute, he already does. |
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