On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 05:07:39PM +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: > - using the same infrastructure, it's also possible to > mount /etc in the initramfs so that you can have e.g. a > separately encrypted /etc filesystem. This is a separate > feature though and can be split out.
This reflects poorly on the infrastructure in question. Handling /etc as a separate filesystem from /, aside from not being a feature anyone else has asked for and not being a requirement for reducing deltas with upstreams / other distros, implies that the initramfs has to have a copy of the information from /etc/fstab. This is *not* how this should be handled. The initramfs should take the information about the root filesystem from the kernel commandline, and its information about /usr from /etc/fstab *on the root filesystem once it has been mounted*. Anything else is a wrong design. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ slanga...@ubuntu.com vor...@debian.org
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