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Autor: Alessandro Selli
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A: dng
Asunto: Re: [DNG] /usr to merge or not to merge... that is the question??
On 21/11/18 at 18:49, karl@??? wrote:
> Alessandro:
>> On 21/11/18 at 17:34, karl@??? wrote:
>>> Alessandro:
>>>> On 21/11/18 at 14:35, karl@??? wrote:
>>>>> Hendrik:
>>>>> ...
>>>>>> Wait a moment. Haven't we already done this with /boot? Should we
>>>>>> perhaps have /boot/sbin, and so forth?
>>>>> /boot is a viable initrd replacement.
>>>>   No, it is not.  An initramfs is needed to perform actions that must be
>>>> done before the / filesystem can be mounted.  /boot does not solve the
>>>> problem of accessing the local storage before it becomes available.
>>> What is the problem you is pointing at ?
>>>
>>> To boot with an uefi system you need a fat partition available before
>>> even the bootloader is loaded, so what is the reason that you cannot
>>> use that instead of an initrd ?
>>   I commented about the idea of using /boot in place of the initramfs,
>> not about using the EFI partition for that.
>>
>>   You still cannot (or at least should not) do that due to the fact that
>> that partition is reserved to EFI, you should not put foreign files into
>> it, and initramfs are normally a Unix filesystem, a vfat fiesystem could
>> well not work (would the kernel recognize /init as an executable file,
>> for instance?).
> You can always mount the fat with umask=000 or with showexec and name
> the scripts/programs like .exe/.bat/.com.



  In an initramfs?


  Seriously?



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