The 03/01/12, Pandu Poluan wrote: > On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 20:13, Nicolas Sebrecht <[email protected]> wrote:
> > But servers have enough ressources to run udev and any required > > initramfs to mount /usr. > > No, no, no, you got it the wrong way around. > > It's not udev *per se* that I -- as a server admin -- want to get rid of. > > It's the initramfs. > > And I also want to put /usr in a separate partition. > > The problem is that, judging from where udev is going in upstream, we > will be forced to use initramfs, or put /usr in / I know. It's the "I want to get the rid of initramfs" thing that looks crazy to me. > > As initramfs is a prooven working solution, all distributions I know use > > it either by default or if needed. > > Then again, using initramfs is yet-another-component waiting to break. > > Knowing Murphy's Law, it will one day fuck up everything. And the mdev alternative won't follow this law? -- Nicolas Sebrecht
