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On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 9:37 AM, Alan Mackenzie <acm@×××.de> wrote: |
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> Hello, Gentoo. |
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> I've been thinking about the problem of the conflation of every |
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> executable into /usr. If /usr isn't on /, the system can't boot without |
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> special preperations. Nothing new here. |
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> The method usually discussed is to copy the booting software into an |
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> initramfs on a partition other than /usr, and use this to mount /usr. |
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> My question: what, technically, prevents me from copying the booting |
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> software instead to /sbin and booting the system that way? |
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Dynamic linking is probably going to be the killer piece. After every |
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update, you'd need to make sure all the libraries the binary needs are |
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also accessible on the / mount. |
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The other piece is probably somewhere along the lines of "if you're |
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going to use an initramfs anyway, now you can put / on |
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$composite_block_device, too!" (Which is something I'll probably start |
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doing on any system where I'd want /usr on a composite block device |
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anyway. Which is pretty much all of them; I like the load consumer |
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balancing behaviors I get from RAID{0|5|6}) |
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:wq |
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