low-hanging fruit

David Zeuthen davidz at redhat.com
Thu Aug 16 21:54:18 UTC 2007


On Thu, 2007-08-16 at 17:50 -0400, David Zeuthen wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-08-16 at 17:50 -0400, Dave Jones wrote:
> > On Thu, Aug 16, 2007 at 05:27:17PM -0400, David Zeuthen wrote:
> >  > 
> >  > On Thu, 2007-08-16 at 10:17 +0200, Nils Philippsen wrote:
> >  > > As a side point, everybody should be using LVM. Directly operating on
> >  > > partitions is so 1980.
> >  > 
> >  > Speaking as a developer, you can't boot a kernel from your home directory
> >  > if /home is on LVM.
> >  
> > wtf, why would you do that?   Given you need to install modules
> > outside of your homedir in /lib anyway, is putting the kernel
> > into /boot so hard?
> 
> I just build everything in (except the bits I'm hacking on); makes it
> much faster to compile too. To each their own I guess.

Ugh, replying to myself again. s/everything/everything I need for the
particular box I'm using/. 

     David




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