The case for the /usr merge [LWN.net]

The case for the /usr merge

Posted Jan 27, 2012 20:26 UTC (Fri) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523)
In reply to: The case for the /usr merge by gb
Parent article: The case for the /usr merge

>Now i am wondering how my home desktop still working without initramfs, i have a / on raid, and do not want to create and maintain special purpose initramfs to mount all partitions.

Kernel can autoassemble RAID arrays, so in simple cases it is possible to make do without initramfs.

However, it's a doomed battle. It's way to easy to create configurations that can't be sanely processed inside the kernel.

The case for the /usr merge

Posted Jan 30, 2012 9:08 UTC (Mon) by jezuch (subscriber, #52988) [Link]

> Kernel can autoassemble RAID arrays, so in simple cases it is possible to make do without initramfs.

From my recent experience: it can, but only with the old metadata format. My impression is that this functionality is deprecated and nobody cares about it anymore. I trust that the kernel devs know what they're doing, so I'm not complaining ;)