Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: /usr vs. initramfs redux

2011-08-06 Thread William Hubbs
On Sat, Aug 06, 2011 at 08:22:23PM +0100, Steven J Long wrote: > I have the same setup and no issues either. I think the problem is for other > devices, eg someone mentioned having a bluetooth adapter in their laptop > which gets picked up at boot by udev, but needs helpers in /usr. > > Accordin

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: /usr vs. initramfs redux

2011-08-06 Thread Chris Coleman
On 6 August 2011 20:22, Steven J Long wrote: > I don't get why we can't allow udev to need localmount, as described in the > bug, with CONFIG_DEVTMPFS creating nodes needed to mount /usr /var etc, > especially as that setting is now being recommended by upstream. (And ofc > we > don't have to use

[gentoo-dev] Re: /usr vs. initramfs redux

2011-08-06 Thread Steven J Long
Mike Gilbert wrote: > On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 10:37 PM, William Hubbs > wrote: >> Not quite. It is actually inside the kernel binary. You are thinking of >> an initrd. >> >> Look at these files: >> >> /usr/src/linux/Documentation/filesystems/ramfs-rootfs-initramfs.txt. >> /usr/src/linux/Documentat

[gentoo-dev] Re: /usr vs. initramfs redux

2011-08-06 Thread Steven J Long
Sven Vermeulen wrote: > On Fri, Aug 05, 2011 at 07:42:29PM -0500, William Hubbs wrote: >> On Fri, Aug 05, 2011 at 10:06:48PM +0200, Sven Vermeulen wrote: >> > That said, I'm a bit hesitant to describing that we "recommend" it >> > regardless of the situation. What is wrong with describing when? At

[gentoo-dev] Re: /usr vs. initramfs redux

2011-08-05 Thread Duncan
Rich Freeman posted on Fri, 05 Aug 2011 21:04:50 -0400 as excerpted: > On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 8:42 PM, William Hubbs > wrote: >> On Fri, Aug 05, 2011 at 10:06:48PM +0200, Sven Vermeulen wrote: >>> How does the tool that creates an initramfs know which files to copy >>> from /usr and /var anyhow?