On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 3:01 PM, Mark Tinberg <mtinb...@wisc.edu> wrote:
>
>> And more to the point, /usr isn't supposed t be needed until you are
>> past the point of mounting all filesystems so you can boot from
>> something tiny. Doesn't modprobe need its files earlier than that?
>
> This work is all about being able to boot a system with just a read-only
> /usr. Any foo you need to get to a complex filesystems, like NFS or
> encrypted software RAID needs to be in the initial ramdisk which the boot
> loader can access before the kernel loads and which tools like Dracut build
> based on what’s required for your particular setup. The seeds of that change
> basically existed from the time that initial ram disks were introduced as a
> feature a long time ago, now we’ve just widely acknowledged this reality.
Errr, I thought you only needed stuff on the ramdisk to access the
root partition. Can't you mount /usr from a different disk controller
or NFS from modules loaded from /lib/modules? Or was that already
broken when user's home directories were kicked into /home? And if
not, how did things get in that mess?
--
Les Mikesell
lesmikes...@gmail.com
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