On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 11:08:41AM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Ken Moffat wrote: > > I'm just catching up on the details of what has changed. In > >section 8.3 the rationale entries for all mentioned options are now > >present - so far, so good. > > > > Unfortunately, automounter version 4 support is still shown as an > >item to be selected. It was certainly recommended for systemd, but > >the last part of the rationale "this is needed to work around a bug > >with network filesystems which are to be mounted on boot" ONLY > >applied to systemd. > > > > IMHO we should not include the kernel automounter in LFS. BLFS > >already has that setting on its autofs page. > > I left that in as a shortcut for those who need the kernel automounter so a > kernel rebuild is not needed. Does it hurt something? Do we just specify > the minimum? > We used to!
> I know that there are lots of other places in BLFS that also have kernel > options, but this seemed relatively innocuous to me. > I call it bloat. Never used it until I was building for systemd. At http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs we say : | Building LFS produces a very compact Linux system | | When you install a regular distribution, you often end up |installing a lot of programs that you would probably never use. |They're just sitting there taking up (precious) disk space. It's not |hard to get an LFS system installed under 100 MB. Does that still |sound like a lot? A few of us have been working on creating a very |small embedded LFS system. We installed a system that was just |enough to run the Apache web server; total disk space usage was |approximately 8 MB. With further stripping, that can be brought down |to 5 MB or less. Try that with a regular distribution. You seem to be moving further and further away from that. In any case, the text about the workaround only applies to systemd (or even "some systemd installations" - one of my builds needs it, another machine with an almost identical build but different hardware appeared as if it didn't [ no obvious error messages on that one ]. We don't mention systemd in the book any more, so we are implying a fault in something. > I suppose instead a link to > http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/stable/longindex.html#kernel-config-index > might be appropriate. > That would not hurt, and might make things easier for new users. ĸen -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, dieses Mal als Farce -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
