On Sun, 2016-01-03 at 13:10 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > Eric Valette <eric.vale...@free.fr> writes: > > > But could you elaborate a bit on "mounting /usr early, something we > > *already do*" if you do not implicitly refer to initramfs solution. > > There are other people who know a lot more about the machinery here than I > do, but my understanding is that we currently use a variety of hacks and > workarounds to try to make sure that /usr is mounted very early in the > boot process, before the various things that expect it to be there start > breaking. Moving it into the initramfs stage will make this more > reliable, but I believe we're already taking special measures to try to > mount /usr early, as opposed to treating it like any other file system. [...]
Roger Leigh prepared the implementation of this for initramfs-tools; I finished it off and was able to get it into jessie just before release. Currently it's conditional on using systemd because initscripts didn't get updated to work with /usr already mounted. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse.
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