Welllll... ... the Gentoo project can always fork e2fsprogs ...
... but who will maintain it, then? Rgds, On 2011-08-20, Mick <michaelkintz...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 > -- -- Pandu E Poluan - IT Optimizer My website: http://pandu.poluan.info/
