On 2012-12-24, Michael Mol wrote: > On Mon, Dec 24, 2012 at 10:06 AM, Nuno J. Silva <nunojsi...@ist.utl.pt> wrote: >> On 2012-12-24, Dale wrote: >> [...] >>> From my understanding, if I upgrade my system to the later version of >>> udev and bypass the init system, my system will not boot. I have not >>> tested the theory but that is what people have been saying. Not only is >>> my /usr separate but it is on LVM partitons too. >> >> Your problem would be LVM (if that's an issue at all, as I said I don't >> know LVM), you'd not need udevd to mount /usr if it were a regular >> partition. > > "you wouldn't have this problem if you did *something else*" is a > terrible response. There are very good reasons to use LVM. There are > good (IMO, at least) reasons to avoid using an initr* on Gentoo. > (Those reasons are sprinkled through the thread, some spoken by me, > some spoken by others.)
A shame that was not what I meant at all, the only thing I said was "yes, the problem is probably caused by it being on LVM, not because of /usr being separate". Just pointing the specific part of Dale's config that would be the problem. > You'll find most of the people in the discussion so far aren't against > initr* in all cases. It's the increase in number of cases where it > becomes technically required that's a problem. -- Nuno Silva (aka njsg) http://njsg.sdf-eu.org/
