On Saturday 20 Aug 2011 13:59:42 David W Noon wrote: > 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.
This is madness. Is there anything we can do to stop it? -- Regards, Mick
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