Hi, On 8/7/20 2:11 am, Michael Stone wrote: > On Tue, Jul 07, 2020 at 10:45:17AM -0500, David Wright wrote: >> On Wed 08 Jul 2020 at 00:41:12 (+1000), Andrew McGlashan wrote: >>> On 2/11/14 8:58 am, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: >>> > * David Baron <d_ba...@012.net.il> [2014-11-01 19:13 +0200]: >>> >> On Friday 31 October 2014 13:08:27 Elimar Riesebieter wrote: >>> > >>> > [...] >>> > >>> >>> It's your decision. MODULES=most should be okay. BUSYBOX=y is >>> >>> essential. >>> >> >>> >> This is what the install gave me. I have not touched it. >>> >> Where do I tell it to mount /usr? >>> > >>> > No need to. initramfs-tools does it by default. Check dmesg or >>> > journal. >>> >>> Still today, it fails to mount /usr if /usr is a logical volume using lvm2 >>> >>> I worked around that problem with an extra "activate" line in the following >>> file: >>> >>> /usr/share/initramfs-tools/scripts/local-top/lvm2 >>> >>> activate "/dev/mapper/vg0-usr" >>> >>> I placed that after the line to activate ROOT.... >>> >>> So, still broken after all this time :( >> >> Is this link worth a read? >> >> https://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/separate-usr-is-broken/ >> >> BTW the first line of the thread is "completely without starting any >> flamewars:" > > The short answer is that there simply isn't a good reason to do this on a > modern system, and there is no volunteer to donate the enormous amount of > effort required to make > something work for which there isn't a good justification for expending that > effort. There should be no flamewar, if someone wants the situation to change > they simply need to be > the person who puts in all the work.
Just doing dist-upgrade with a perfectly acceptable file system previously is no reason why it should break. The mentioned intramfs config file has a strange note about it being "dangerous" to enable activate all logical volumes, why?!?!?! Debian/Devuan are Linux distros that allow for continuous upgrading without re-installing; the fact that MANY systems have previously separated root and /usr and, effectively "times have changed" really isn't an acceptable answer. Even systemd doesn't seem to think it should be a problem for those that choose to use systemd. A.
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