On 07/31/2011 03:59 AM, Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto wrote: > On 30-07-2011 22:17, William Hubbs wrote: >> On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 10:27:27AM +0300, Samuli Suominen wrote: >>> Since running separate /usr without mounting it from initramfs on >>> top of / before init is and has been broken with udev for a long >>> time now[1][2][3] >>> >>> [1] http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=364235 [2] >>> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/UsrMove#Move_all_to_.2Fusr >>> [3] >>> http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/separate-usr-is-broken >>> >>> >>> > Can we warn users about not doing the separate /usr mistake in the handbook? > >> There are actually two options for us according to upstream. One is >> the one you are talking about -- mounting /usr from an initramfs >> before / is mounted. The other is to mount local file systems, if >> setups are simple enough, before we start udev. I could set this one >> up easily enough just by moving localmount to the boot runlevel. > >> Can we discuss both options? > If there's any option that allows the use of a separate /usr partition > without an initramfs, then let's explore it. I don't feel like having to > use an initramfs just because I want a small / without /usr on it.
The message is really missing all the context without explanation for WHY you want it.
