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From: Pandu Poluan <pandu@××××××.info>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: RE: [gentoo-user] Re: After /usr conflation: why not copy booting software to /sbin rather than initramfs?
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2012 06:22:11
Message-Id: CAA2qdGVaRq+2rmQ-ZgOXWjj4_MZ8OnNuZ3GyEBJXbFfSHgW+ow@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: RE: [gentoo-user] Re: After /usr conflation: why not copy booting software to /sbin rather than initramfs? by Pandu Poluan
1 On Mar 28, 2012 1:17 PM, "Pandu Poluan" <pandu@××××××.info> wrote:
2 >
3 >
4 > On Mar 28, 2012 11:27 AM, "Mike Edenfield" <kutulu@××××××.org> wrote:
5 > >
6 > >
7 > > Well, for one, the initramfs solution is not generally considered "ugly"
8 > > except by a select vocal few who object to it on vague, unarticulated
9 > > grounds.
10 >
11 > Check out the email from William Kenworth in this mailing list; he's
12 having trouble with initramfs being a blackbox.
13 >
14 > As a (mostly) server guy, I much prefer using a whitebox.
15 >
16 > I happen to have /usr on a VHD, so I don't need an initramfs for booting
17 (that, plus my production servers are all udev-less). If push comes to
18 shove, what I'll do is create a vestigial /usr in the root partition, and
19 have it overlaid by mounting the actual root over it.
20
21 That should be: "mounting the actual /usr over it."
22
23 Rgds,