Am Mittwoch, 7. September 2011, 23:33:35 schrieb Canek Peláez Valdés: > > The more I think about this merge of / and /usr, the dumber I think the > > idea is. As I wrote in an earlier message on this list, the initramfs > > will be many times larger than the kernel itself. Indeed, my /boot > > partition is only 32 MiB, and that will be too small to contain all the > > extra libraries and programs to run the initramfs script. > > I don't see any problem with an initramfs larger than the kernel. It > will handle a lot of stuff. But if you don't want to change your /boot > partition, then don't upgrade to new kernels.
How about accepting the fact, that there are a lot of things out there "you don't see"? Get over it. People have told a lot of valid reasons. They might not seem valid to you, but that's not their problem. Have you *ever* thought about machines, that are not x86 or x86_64? Here's an intersting read: http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/72769 > Change happens. That's right. And sometimes these changes are simply bad ideas. > >> > Mounting it read-only > >> > seems the only sensible one, and then I think is better to go all > >> > the way and mount / read-only. > >> > >> Putting /etc on a read-only filesystem seems a really bad idea. > > > > To say the least. > > It works, and it makes life easier for upstream. Which are the ones > writting the code. Hu? There's one upstream writing all the code for all the stuff we use? That's news to me. > Regards. Regards, Michael
