On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 04:40:33AM +0300, Samuli Suominen wrote: > 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. Here is a good argument for supporting this.
http://tldp.org/LDP/lame/LAME/linux-admin-made-easy/install-partitioning.html You can hose your system easier with one big file system with / and /usr combined than you can with multiple partitions. William
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