On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 3:07 PM, Michael Schreckenbauer <grim...@gmx.de> wrote: > On Monday, 12. September 2011 14:37:24 Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: >> No fixable, in reality. The flexibility of udev is in part in that the >> userspace can (and actually do) run arbitrary scripts and binaries >> from udev rules. You can "fix" the ones that require binaries in /usr >> *NOW*, but not forever, unless you forbid the use of arbitrary >> binaries from udev rules. > > Why do you need to run arbitrary scripts to mount /usr?
It's not specifically that you need to run arbitrary scripts to mount /usr. It's that it's unknown that /usr must be mounted before some hotplug events are handled. > >> Linux has a much better, flexible and automatized (dracut) way of >> doing this, by using an initramfs. With an initramfs you can have the >> smallest / in the world, and mount everything else afterwards. The >> initramfs memory is free'd after the pivot_root happens, so who cares >> how big it is? > > KISS. An initramfs is an additional layer, that can fail. Concur. While a massive machine full of moving parts is beautiful to behold, it's also the easiest thing to break, accidentally or otherwise. -- :wq
