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From: David W Noon <dwnoon@××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] InitRAMFS - boot expert sought
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2012 23:23:01
Message-Id: 20120329002004.6a4506a5@karnak.local
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] InitRAMFS - boot expert sought by Alan McKinnon
1 On Thu, 29 Mar 2012 00:26:40 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote about Re:
2 [gentoo-user] InitRAMFS - boot expert sought:
3
4 > On Wed, 28 Mar 2012 23:01:24 +0100
5 > David W Noon <dwnoon@××××××××.com> wrote:
6 [snip]
7 > > With the pending changes to udev scripts, you could well need /var
8 > > -- and anything else -- before udev starts. So it is in the same
9 > > category as /usr.
10 >
11 > Maybe, maybe not.
12 >
13 > However, no-one apart from you is even suggesting such a thing. For my
14 > part I'm going to ignore that possibility and concentrate on those
15 > things that are being seriously suggested.
16
17 The Gentoo developers have been discussing just that. The reason is
18 that many of the daemons that can be started by udev scripts require
19 work files on /var, so we could well need /var mounted too.
20 --
21 Regards,
22
23 Dave [RLU #314465]
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25 dwnoon@××××××××.com (David W Noon)
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Re: [gentoo-user] InitRAMFS - boot expert sought Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>
Re: [gentoo-user] InitRAMFS - boot expert sought Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>
Re: [gentoo-user] InitRAMFS - boot expert sought Doug Hunley <doug.hunley@×××××.com>