On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 8:50 AM, Steven J Long <sl...@rathaus.eclipse.co.uk> wrote: > The thing I don't understand is why it is necessary to move stuff from /bin > to /usr/bin. After all, if you're running the "approved" setup you don't > have a separate /usr so all the binaries are available from the get-go.
Where is this approved setup documented? Consider guides like this one: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-x86+raid+lvm2-quickinstall.xml While you're fixing that you might want to write up an "easy migration guide" for anybody who followed our official docs in "the past" (with "the past" including up to the moment that the raid+lvm guide is updated)... > Sure, if you have binaries in /bin that link to libraries in /usr/lib that > could be an issue, but only if you're running with a separate /usr and don't > have it mounted when udev starts. So again, not the "approved" setup, and > something you as an admin already have to deal with by making sure /usr is > mounted when udev starts (either via an initramfs, or by a tweak to udev > startup scripts[1].) Well, it is hard to think of a meaningful raid+lvm configuration that doesn't require an initramfs of some sort with the dependence on files in /usr during boot. So, getting our initramfs options improved and supporting this configuration just makes sense regardless before we unmask newer versions of udev. Raid+lvm isn't exactly an unusual use-case. Many distros actually use at least lvm by default now. Rich
