On Sat, 2012-03-17 at 17:43 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 1:15 PM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > On Sat, 17 Mar 2012 08:10:35 -0700 > > Mark Knecht <markkne...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > >> 4) I don't use a separate /usr so I don't need any of this. I suspect > >> most casual Gentoo users like me are pretty much the same. > > > > This news item in no way applies to you and you are completely > > unaffected. You can safely update openrc and udev. > > > > Yeah, that was my reading of it, and I appreciate your response. > > In this case, and I don't know why, I have this feeling that this > thing is gonna turn out badly and I'd be better being prepared on the > initramfs side of things. I did have to use one to bring up my server > with / on a RAID6, not because I needed it long term but in the short > term I couldn't determine how mdadm was numbering the RAID so that I > could get grub.conf correct. I'm somehow a bot worried something is > going to slip by the devs and I'd be better off having an initramfs > already running on the box when I do allow the upgrades. > > Planning on giving Dracut a try. > > Thanks, > Mark >
Definitely be careful! - I went the genkernel route and except for laptops use LVM and separate partitions. Be very wary of using an existing kernel config - there are a few unexpected things that I had to enable to get an already working, but customised kernel config to boot properly after genkernel used it. I still need to cut the config down some more to speed booting (restrict the autodetect to hardware I actually have). genkernel doesnt support suspend/resume without patching so beware if thats a consideration. I do get the feeling I now have a less reliable, flakier system with more demands on admin time because everytime I upgrade I will have more issues. I might eventually do away with the separate /usr if they ever get it read only and reliable, but thats likely to a way off yet and none of my machines use a big enough (non LVM) / to hold it anyway. BillK
