On 07/30/2011 05:28 PM, Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn wrote: > Samuli Suominen schrieb: >> >> Someone mentioned NFS mount on /usr. Do we have other reasons? How >> many users that might be? > > If you have / encrypted, then you can leave /usr unencrypted as it > contains no secrets. Also /usr can remain mounted read-only most of the > time, so there is a reduced chance of accidental corruption. > I don't know the number of users who might want this, and I imagine it > is difficult to count them.
That is still possible, since separate /usr would still be an option if it's mounted from the initramfs before init. Quote from #gentoo-dev today: 11:39 <@aidecoe> dracut has module fstab-sys. You might check this out to mount additional stuff before switching to root.