Quoting Steve Litt (sl...@troubleshooters.com):
> And about the recompiling the kernel on each update if you want no
> initramfs: I wonder how intentional that extreme inconvenience is.
It's not _that_ inconvenient. Once you craft a suitable .config for
your use-case, it's just a small wait to
On Wed, Jul 08, 2020 at 09:01:14PM -0700, Ian Zimmerman wrote:
> On 2020-07-07 12:20, Steve Litt wrote:
>
> > You need certain executables, pre-mount, before a separate /usr can be
> > mounted. These went in /sbin, which is on the root and always
> > available. If you could mount the root partitio
On Wed, 8 Jul 2020 21:01:14 -0700
Ian Zimmerman wrote:
> So maybe the real question is, in the merged world, do you have a
> reason to insist on /usr being a mount point, other than tradition?
Me personally? No. But there are a million different users and admins
with a million different priori
On Wed, 8 Jul 2020 11:49:40 +0200
Didier Kryn wrote:
> The main reason for initramfs is, IMHO, for distros to provide
> disk drivers and filesystems in the form of modules present in the
> initramfs. They disapear after pivot-root so that only the necessary
> ones remain in memory.
>
>
On 2020-07-07 12:20, Steve Litt wrote:
> You need certain executables, pre-mount, before a separate /usr can be
> mounted. These went in /sbin, which is on the root and always
> available. If you could mount the root partition, you could proceed.
>
> But now, if you mount /usr somewhere off the r
Le 07/07/2020 à 18:20, Steve Litt a écrit :
> On Tue, 7 Jul 2020 08:41:31 -0700
> Ian Zimmerman wrote:
>
>> On 2020-07-07 11:26, Steve Litt wrote:
>>
>>> Void Linux also symlinks all the various *bin directories together,
>>> even though it's a runit distro. My objection is this merge forces
>>> y
On Tue, 7 Jul 2020 08:41:31 -0700
Ian Zimmerman wrote:
> On 2020-07-07 11:26, Steve Litt wrote:
>
> > Void Linux also symlinks all the various *bin directories together,
> > even though it's a runit distro. My objection is this merge forces
> > you to have an initramfs.
>
> This doesn't sound
