init observations

[seth vidal]

On Tue, 2005-11-15 at 16:40 -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> Chris Adams (cmadams at hiwaay.net) said: 
> > Once upon a time, Avi Kivity <avi at argo.co.il> said:
> > > It would be excellent if the glue code could be done in python:
> > 
> > Requiring /usr be available before starting anything is not going to
> > work.
> > 
> > > [there might be opposition to linking init with /usr/, but I consider it 
> > > outdated. we have initrd to mount our filesystems today]
> > 
> > I don't really want to have to rebuild initrd anytime I change network
> > settings and such (think network shared /usr).
> 
> OK, this is something I've been meaning to ask about - who
> still uses network /usr, and why do you use that instead of
> network /  ?

And how do you get hard drives that are smaller than 40GB :)

-sv