On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 2:02 PM, Robin H. Johnson <robb...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 07, 2011 at 07:22:46AM -0400, Rich Freeman wrote: > > Right now migrating to initramfs won't do any good, as Gentoo doesn't > have > > an initramfs available which mounts /usr. No doubt once Fedora gets > theirs > > working we'll be able to copy it (assuming it is FOSS), or we can write > our > > own. > The options for this are looking like: > - static initramfs that I proposed (WilliamH has an early prototype) > - genkernel > - dracut > > WilliamH's prototype seems to mostly work, I just want to polish it some > and then release it. I think we can offer it as an easy default to > users, since it doesn't need to be rebuilt when the kernel is rebuilt at > all. > > Agreed on all the comments along these lines. I just wanted to suggest that we not let the effort of breaking separate /usr get out too far ahead of the effort to un-break it. :) As we can see from the openrc/handbook situation it is easy to let the docs get out of sync (not pointing fingers here - coordination is just an issue anytime you have many hands). Rich
