On Sunday, October 16, 2011 12:33:51 PM Zac Medico wrote: > On 10/16/2011 06:07 AM, Rich Freeman wrote: > > On Sat, Oct 15, 2011 at 6:07 PM, Zac Medico <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I don't think it's a good idea for Gentoo to encourage users to have > >> /usr on a separate partition. We should probably remove the separate > >> /usr partition from "Code Listing 2.1: Filesystem usage example" in > >> our > >> handbook: > >> > >> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=1&chap=4#d > >> oc_chap2_pre1> > > Well, if we want to do that then we should also update: > > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-x86+raid+lvm2-quickinstall.xml > > > > Of course - that is an initramfs-less configuration, and such a thing > > would be nearly impossible to do with /usr on root unless you > > basically don't put anything of value on the LVM volumes in the first > > place. You could put everything but /boot on LVM and then use an > > initramfs. Or, you need to cover mounting /usr, /var, etc from the > > initramfs. > > > > And I don't think it is a good idea to NOT have a supported RAID/LVM > > configuration. That is hardly an edge case... > > If those LVM volumes require userspace tools to mount, then I think it's > perfectly reasonable to expect them to use either an initramfs or a > simple linuxrc approach [1] to ensure that /usr is mounted before init > starts. > > [1] > http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/msg_20749880f5bc5feda141488498729fe8.x > ml
If this approach works, would it be an option to add this to the LVM [1] and RAID+LVM [2] pages? [1] http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/lvm2.xml [2] http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-x86+raid+lvm2-quickinstall.xml -- Joost
