Hi there!
On Thu, 13 Oct 2011 14:15:43 +0200, Ben Hutchings wrote:
On Thu, 2011-10-13 at 11:19 +0200, Luca Capello wrote:
On Wed, 12 Oct 2011 21:24:33 +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote:
The Debian initramfs of my sid system is 10 MB, while the one from my
RHEL 6.1 servers is 12 MB. So there is no
Hi Marco,
On Thu, 13 Oct 2011 16:20:33 +0200, m...@linux.it (Marco d'Itri) wrote:
On Oct 13, Stephan Seitz stse+deb...@fsing.rootsland.net wrote:
...
- Rescue DVDs may not support modern file systems because of older
kernels.
Not a very compelling reason: if you use an unusual/recent file
On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 08:22:09PM -0700, Josh Triplett wrote:
Other than tradition, for what reason do you put /usr on a different
filesystem?
If / and /boot are the same filesystem, then using a filesystem that the
bootloader supports is important. At least in the recent past, grub 2
didn't
Hi,
On Donnerstag, 13. Oktober 2011, brian m. carlson wrote:
If / and /boot are the same filesystem, then using a filesystem that the
bootloader supports is important. At least in the recent past, grub 2
didn't support booting off ext4; there was some problem when doing that.
If /usr is a
* Holger Levsen hol...@layer-acht.org [111014 07:49]:
On Donnerstag, 13. Oktober 2011, brian m. carlson wrote:
If / and /boot are the same filesystem, then using a filesystem that the
bootloader supports is important. At least in the recent past, grub 2
didn't support booting off ext4;
On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 08:22:09PM -0700, Josh Triplett wrote:
Other than tradition, for what reason do you put /usr on a different
filesystem?
- I think that the probability that defective hard drive sectors will hit
a small partition is less. So your „repair partition” will probably
Hi there!
On Wed, 12 Oct 2011 21:24:33 +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote:
On Oct 12, Reinhard Tartler siret...@debian.org wrote:
On the other hand, Debian has chosen against that and relies on klibc,
ipconfig, etc. for early userspace and thus, the initramfs. I suspect
the main motivations behind
On Thu, 2011-10-13 at 11:19 +0200, Luca Capello wrote:
Hi there!
On Wed, 12 Oct 2011 21:24:33 +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote:
On Oct 12, Reinhard Tartler siret...@debian.org wrote:
On the other hand, Debian has chosen against that and relies on klibc,
ipconfig, etc. for early userspace and
On Oct 13, Stephan Seitz stse+deb...@fsing.rootsland.net wrote:
- I think that the probability that defective hard drive sectors
will hit a small partition is less. So your „repair partition”
will probably boot at least in emergency mode with more tools than
any initramfs.
I can't see
On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 04:20:33PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote:
On Oct 13, Stephan Seitz stse+deb...@fsing.rootsland.net wrote:
- I think that the probability that defective hard drive sectors
will hit a small partition is less. So your „repair partition”
will probably boot at least in
On Mi, Okt 12, 2011 at 06:09:00 (CEST), Ivan Shmakov wrote:
Marco d'Itri m...@linux.it writes:
[…]
So let's look at the reasons against merging /usr in / listed in my
final summary. All of them do not apply to merging / in /usr, and
actually become arguments in favour of doing it:
Reinhard Tartler siret...@debian.org writes:
On Mi, Okt 12, 2011 at 06:09:00 (CEST), Ivan Shmakov wrote:
[…]
AFAIUI Harald (the fedora maintainer for their initramfs tool
dracut), he dislikes having a separate set of tools in /usr and the
initramfs, i.e., he strongly favors putting
On Oct 12, Reinhard Tartler siret...@debian.org wrote:
On the other hand, Debian has chosen against that and relies on klibc,
ipconfig, etc. for early userspace and thus, the initramfs. I suspect
the main motivations behind these decisions were portability and size
(please correct me and add
On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 09:24:33PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote:
The Debian initramfs of my sid system is 10 MB, while the one from my
My / (testing) is 193M, so I guess, I have much more „emergency” programs
available than you. The last time I was trapped within a initramfs, the
available
Hello Stephan Seitz,
Am 2011-10-12 22:20:50, hacktest Du folgendes herunter:
Most of my systems don’t use initramfs and have / and /usr on
different file systems. I am no interested in changing this good
tradition.
Here too...
Using the inittamfs on my 6 storage servers (each 48 HDD 2 TB
On Oct 13, Michelle Konzack linux4miche...@tamay-dogan.net wrote:
Using the inittamfs on my 6 storage servers (each 48 HDD 2 TB intern and
the same extern)requires rootdelay=3000 and longer. Working without
reduce the average boottime to 12 minutes.
Looks like you need to work out what is
Stephan Seitz wrote:
On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 09:24:33PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote:
I still do not believe that portability is an issue, and please
remember that this would not force people to use an initramfs unless
they want to keep /usr on a standalone file system.
Most of my systems don’t
Marco d'Itri m...@linux.it writes:
[…]
So let's look at the reasons against merging /usr in / listed in my
final summary. All of them do not apply to merging / in /usr, and
actually become arguments in favour of doing it:
- NFS: sharing a read only system over NFS becomes much easier
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