Hi, Am Dienstag, 8. November 2011, 19:24:11 schrieb Steven J Long: > Hi, > > Following the debates over the summer, about plans to require an initramfs > for udev, I put together a slightly different approach using the dependency > tracking in openrc. It's outlined (in Unsupported Software) at: > http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-6866484.html > and consists of a couple of simple patches to the initscripts for udev and > udev-mount, supporting a new initramfs option (defaults to "yes") in > udev.conf. I've been using it on my desktop at home for a couple of months > now and it works like a charm here. As ever, YMMV.
interesting approach. > As I state in the post: > This is only for people who know they have all the modules built-in the > kernel to mount local filesystems, have a separate /usr and/or /var, and are > happy with their current setups, apart from possible future issues with > udev starting before localmount, and find the requirement for an initramfs > sufficiently annoying to tweak their setups, *and* are willing to deal with > keeping the lines in the initscripts during etc-updates. > > This is on stable udev (164-r2.) I'm not running unstable, so be careful if > you are, and let us know if there are any changes needed. You can get in > touch on IRC, or via the forum post. I am running ~amd64 and I'll try this, when I have some spare time. I'll let you know, how it works for me. Thanks a lot for this. > HTH, > igli. Best, Michael
