On Wednesday 05 December 2012 02:32:09 Bruce Dubbs wrote: > I've been thinking about the idea of reviving the live-lfs project. > What I had in mind was to create a tmpfs for / in an initrd and copy > from the boot device to the tmpfs and run from that. That would > overcome your problem because / would be read/write.
great Idea. But why does / have to be R/W? is this a requirement for udev (er systemd )? In my heath-robinson setup I am not using an initrd. And everything except Xorg works. Convention is that /usr is readonly but nowadays many of the developers just assume that the root filesystem is r/w so many files in /usr, /etc etc. are routinely written to (for example /etc/adjtime) on boot. And some installtion generate a /usr/var In my setup I am still puzzled why udev and Xorg seems to be problematic. Specifically why xterm refuses to budge in a RO- rootfs. And no errors are reported in /var/log/Xorg.0.log /var/log/messages etc And why indeed does usb stuff needs to be unplugged/replugged. /lib/udev is identical in both R/W-root and RO-root. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
