On 10/16/2011 06:07 AM, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Sat, Oct 15, 2011 at 6:07 PM, Zac Medico <zmed...@gentoo.org> wrote: >> >> I don't think it's a good idea for Gentoo to encourage users to have >> /usr on a separate partition. We should probably remove the separate >> /usr partition from "Code Listing 2.1: Filesystem usage example" in our >> handbook: >> >> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=1&chap=4#doc_chap2_pre1 >> > > Well, if we want to do that then we should also update: > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-x86+raid+lvm2-quickinstall.xml > > Of course - that is an initramfs-less configuration, and such a thing > would be nearly impossible to do with /usr on root unless you > basically don't put anything of value on the LVM volumes in the first > place. You could put everything but /boot on LVM and then use an > initramfs. Or, you need to cover mounting /usr, /var, etc from the > initramfs. > > And I don't think it is a good idea to NOT have a supported RAID/LVM > configuration. That is hardly an edge case...
If those LVM volumes require userspace tools to mount, then I think it's perfectly reasonable to expect them to use either an initramfs or a simple linuxrc approach [1] to ensure that /usr is mounted before init starts. [1] http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/msg_20749880f5bc5feda141488498729fe8.xml -- Thanks, Zac
