On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 4:09 AM, Michael Schreckenbauer <grim...@gmx.de> wrote: > Am Mittwoch, 7. September 2011, 23:33:35 schrieb Canek Peláez Valdés: >> > The more I think about this merge of / and /usr, the dumber I think the >> > idea is. As I wrote in an earlier message on this list, the initramfs >> > will be many times larger than the kernel itself. Indeed, my /boot >> > partition is only 32 MiB, and that will be too small to contain all the >> > extra libraries and programs to run the initramfs script. >> >> I don't see any problem with an initramfs larger than the kernel. It >> will handle a lot of stuff. But if you don't want to change your /boot >> partition, then don't upgrade to new kernels. > > How about accepting the fact, that there are a lot of things out there "you > don't see"? Get over it. People have told a lot of valid reasons. They might > not seem valid to you, but that's not their problem.
Relax man, I keep saying that is *I* who don't see a valid reason. That doesn't mean there is no valid reason; I thought that went without saying. Sorry if it sounded like I was invalidating all you guys reasons. My primary point was that, I *you* have your reasons to keep a separated /usr, then by all means do it. You will only need an initramfs. > Have you *ever* thought about machines, that are not x86 or x86_64? > Here's an intersting read: > http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/72769 No, I haven't thought about them, because I don't use them. What it has to do with anything? >> Change happens. > > That's right. And sometimes these changes are simply bad ideas. If so you think, then write the code to support the *really good* ideas. >> >> > Mounting it read-only >> >> > seems the only sensible one, and then I think is better to go all >> >> > the way and mount / read-only. >> >> >> >> Putting /etc on a read-only filesystem seems a really bad idea. >> > >> > To say the least. >> >> It works, and it makes life easier for upstream. Which are the ones >> writting the code. > > Hu? There's one upstream writing all the code for all the stuff we use? That's > news to me. Well, in this case by "upstream" I was meaning the Gentoo devs. Regards. -- Canek Peláez Valdés Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingeniería de la Computación Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
