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From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] InitRAMFS - boot expert sought
Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2012 21:02:29
Message-Id: 20120329225818.3adcc8e6@khamul.example.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] InitRAMFS - boot expert sought by David W Noon
1 On Thu, 29 Mar 2012 13:01:49 +0100
2 David W Noon <dwnoon@××××××××.com> wrote:
3
4 > On Thu, 29 Mar 2012 10:28:36 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote about Re:
5 > [gentoo-user] InitRAMFS - boot expert sought:
6 >
7 > > On Thu, 29 Mar 2012 00:20:04 +0100
8 > > David W Noon <dwnoon@××××××××.com> wrote:
9 > [snip]
10 > > > The Gentoo developers have been discussing just that. The reason
11 > > > is that many of the daemons that can be started by udev scripts
12 > > > require work files on /var, so we could well need /var mounted
13 > > > too.
14 > >
15 > > Which begs the obvious question,
16 > >
17 > > Why on earth is udev launching daemons in EARLY BOOT?
18 >
19 > Your guess is as good as mine!
20 >
21 > At present, the first thing I see when udev starts is a failed attempt
22 > to run /usr/sbin/alsactl to restore the audio levels on my sound card.
23 > This occurs before localmount or any other services in the sysinit
24 > run-level have been started. Just why anybody wants sound before the
25 > disk volumes have been mounted baffles me; I guess people are just
26 > desperate for the comforts of stereo.
27
28 Perhaps the ability to hear the computer go "bing" when volumes
29 mount is a killer marketing feature....
30
31 Reminds me of Sigourney Weaver's character in Galaxy Quest - she was
32 the bimbo who announced to the room whenever the computer went bing
33
34
35 > Perhaps my mind simply lacks
36 > the sophistication to understand the design of udev.
37 >
38 > I guess I'll just stick to my 80-column Hollerith cards. ... :-)
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42 --
43 Alan McKinnnon
44 alan.mckinnon@×××××.com

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Re: [gentoo-user] InitRAMFS - boot expert sought pk <peterk2@××××××××.se>
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