Re: [gentoo-user] where did lvm installation guide go?

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On 2013-08-30 10:28 AM, Canek Peláez Valdés <caneko@×××××.com> wrote:
> udev/eudev has nothing to do with it. It's the init systems (as in
> both systemd and OpenRC) the ones that are pushing/have pushed for
> dropping support for it. In Gentoo, the move is being championed by
> William Hubs:
>
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.project/2946
>
> He's the OpenRC maintainer. NOBODY who has actually worked on the
> problem wants to support a separate /usr without an initramfs, because
> it makes no sense.

Please stop making such false statements.

It only makes no sense because of *other* decisions being made that want 
to force files critical to booting to be placed into /usr.

There is no *philosophical* reason that it 'makes no sense.

> So it doesn't matter if you use udev, eudev, mdev or even a static
> /dev directory; no init system wants to support a separate /usr
> without an initramfs.

Just fyi... the *only* problem that I have with this is that I have an 
*existing* system that has a separate /usr, and it only has that 
separate /usr because when I followed the original gentoo installation 
handbook back in 2003 or so, it actually had a separate /usr in the 
example directory structure layout, so I thought it was the official 
gentoo *recommendation* to do it that way.

If I wasn't in this predicament, I'd just make a mental note to never 
install /usr to a separate partition and be done with it.

> And for a good reason: is braindead.

Again - it is only braindead if you accept the basic premise that it 
'makes sense' to put files critical to the boot process into /usr.

Personally, I think it only 'makes sense' to put files critical to the 
boot process into <gasp!> /boot.