On Thu, 5 Jan 2012 07:27:49 +1300 Kent Fredric <kentfred...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 2012/1/5 Ulrich Mueller <u...@gentoo.org> > > > > >>>>> On Wed, 4 Jan 2012, Michał Górny wrote: > >> > > There's really nothing pointless or blurry about this separation. > > The FHS has a nice definition: "The contents of the root filesystem > > must be adequate to boot, restore, recover, and/or repair the > > system." > > > > Given that these tools are being moved to /usr and/or duplicated to in > initrd , what is the point of a root filesystem anyway now? Just to > mount other things on? Just to store /etc ? Well, you can either keep both /etc and /usr on a single filesystem, or move /etc out of rootfs and just make it a tmpfs. > And if you no longer have a suite of recovery tools on root, you > *have* to really have a copy in initrd, otherwise when /usr gets > damaged and needs repaired/recovered, you'll need a boot disk just to > solve that problem. And that I don't fancy. And if / gets damaged, keeping those tools on / doesn't help either. If you have them on initramfs, they can fix it as well. Of course we could go onto 'what if initramfs gets damaged?' but then you're HDD got damaged as well... > And another errant thought: why not just repurpose the initrd as "the > root filesystem" if the root filesystem is just to exist for the > purpose of bolting other stuff on. Noone forbids you to. But then you won't get your memory back when real system boots. -- Best regards, Michał Górny
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