On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 2:28 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés <can...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 2:09 PM, Michael Mol <mike...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 1:52 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés <can...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 1:23 PM, Dan Johansson <dan.johans...@dmj.nu> wrote: >>>>> > This is definitely not a choice that the gentoo disto made; it is coming >>>>> > from several upstreams. >>>>> >>>>> I know it is from upstream but it still tastes really bad. ;-) >>>> >>>> I can only agree! >>>> I am having /usr on a LVM volume on all systems (Gentoo and non Gentoo). >>>> This will be a MAJOR issue if /usr needs to be on /. >>> >>> It is my understanding that /usr does *not* need to be on /, only that >>> if you do, you will need an initramfs. Look at >>> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/72275 and the thread >>> that followed it. >> >> ...and now I know that my entirely UUID-driven fstab may stop working, >> if they choose not to add that particular "tweak/improvement". > > ...or you could, you know, use the genkernel generated initramfs, or > dracut. Anyway, probably UUIDs and labels will be added to the minimal > initramfs (it is my undrestanding it's kinda easy to do). The > important thing is that it will be still supported.
I use the proprietary NVidia drivers, so genkernel went away very early in my system's lifetime. I hadn't heard about dracut until today. I still don't know anything about it, really. -- :wq
