On 04/09/2012 11:09 AM, Steven J Long wrote:
One thing that has bothered me with the mooting of an initramfs as the new rescue system that rootfs has traditionally been, is at the we are told at the same time that the initramfs can be very minimal. If so, how does it provide the same capabilities as rootfs (for those of us who can localmount without udev-configured devices)?
We've had some discussion on this before [1], and I've suggested to copy the content of livecd/usb recovery disk onto a spare partition so that you can boot into that if necessary. The advantage of using this approach is that it eliminates the burden of maintaining the "/ is a self-contained boot disk that's independent of /usr" use case.
[1] http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/msg_ceb908069aafdfff50e7f2d0732bf209.xml
-- Thanks, Zac
