On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 02:37:24PM -0400, Canek Pel??ez Vald??s wrote > No fixable, in reality. The flexibility of udev is in part in that the > userspace can (and actually do) run arbitrary scripts and binaries > from udev rules. You can "fix" the ones that require binaries in /usr > *NOW*, but not forever, unless you forbid the use of arbitrary > binaries from udev rules.
No the problem is that I don't think we should force 100% of all users to migrate to initramfs or a Windows-like C:\ simply to satisfy the 1% that run into problems with the current udev. Let *THOSE* users migrate to initramfs or a Windows-like C:\. > And then you lose the flexibility. And then *I* lose the flexibility of a small / *WITHOUT* initramfs. [i3][root][/] "fdisk -l" shows Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 63 1953520064 976760001 5 Extended /dev/sda5 126 530144 265009+ 83 Linux /dev/sda6 530208 19422584 9446188+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris /dev/sda7 19422648 1953520064 967048708+ 83 Linux Some lines from /etc/fstab /dev/sda5 / ext2 noatime,nodiratime,async 0 1 /dev/sda7 /home reiserfs noatime,nodiratime,async,notail 0 1 /home/bindmounts/opt /opt auto bind 0 0 /home/bindmounts/var /var auto bind 0 0 /home/bindmounts/usr /usr auto bind 0 0 /home/bindmounts/tmp /tmp auto bind 0 0 /dev/sda6 none swap sw 0 0 [i3][root][/] du -cs /usr 5664646 /usr 5664646 total > And yeah, that's not how classical Unix do things. Who cares? Linux > does it so much better. And yeah, that's not how classical Gentoo does things. Who cares? Distro X does it so much better. </SARCASM> Guess what, if I really wanted to run Distro X, I'd be running Distro X. And for those that claim /var would never be needed early, what if somebody's weirdo setup wants a network connection early? I assume they'd want the firewall to be up when the network goes up. Ever heard of /var/lib/iptables/rules-save ? -- Walter Dnes <[email protected]>
