On Thu, 29 Mar 2012 00:20:04 +0100 David W Noon <dwn...@ntlworld.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 29 Mar 2012 00:26:40 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote about Re: > [gentoo-user] InitRAMFS - boot expert sought: > > > On Wed, 28 Mar 2012 23:01:24 +0100 > > David W Noon <dwn...@ntlworld.com> wrote: > [snip] > > > With the pending changes to udev scripts, you could well need /var > > > -- and anything else -- before udev starts. So it is in the same > > > category as /usr. > > > > Maybe, maybe not. > > > > However, no-one apart from you is even suggesting such a thing. For > > my part I'm going to ignore that possibility and concentrate on > > those things that are being seriously suggested. > > The Gentoo developers have been discussing just that. The reason is > that many of the daemons that can be started by udev scripts require > work files on /var, so we could well need /var mounted too. Which begs the obvious question, Why on earth is udev launching daemons in EARLY BOOT? -- Alan McKinnnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com
