-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, 20 Aug 2011 03:48:18 -0500, Dale wrote about "Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot":
[snip] >I wish you could convince the devs of that. I already have /var on >its own and was planning to put /usr on its own. I'm not now tho. >Looks like /, /boot, /home and that's it for the OS part. It >downright sucks. I have also been following the discussion on gentoo-dev, although I currently only lurk there. I was going to register and post with a suggestion that everything should be on the root partition; that way we could rename it C: and be compliant with the "industry standard". However, it gets worse: one cannot safely fsck a partition or logical volume once it has been mounted. As things currently stand, there are no statically linked fsck modules for ext2/3/4, as static linkage was dropped from e2fsprogs about 3 years ago. This means for fsck to run inside an initramfs or intrd, the image will have to contain glibc, libpthread and a whole slew of other large libraries in order to run e2fsck with dynamic linkage. The initramfs will end up being *many* times larger than the kernel itself. [On my systems, the vmlinuz file is only about 1.8 megs, and glibc alone makes that look really puny.] Welcome to progress. - -- Regards, Dave [RLU #314465] ====================================================================== dwn...@ntlworld.com (David W Noon) ====================================================================== -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAk5Pr8QACgkQRQ2Fs59Psv+S8ACeMadMIjobzT61nCWoVrlqz0Pz t50AoLZ83Jgw16BIWg7CD2tCb8hrdRzf =gDyo -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
