On Wed, Sep 07, 2011 at 07:22:46AM -0400, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 5:27 AM, Michał Górny <mgo...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > > On Wed, 07 Sep 2011 12:17:21 +0300 > > Alexey Shvetsov <ale...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > > > > Moving things as openrc to /usr/libexec will effectevely barake old > > > systems with separtae / and /usr. So it isnt good idea > > > > Old systems should migrate to initramfs, like it was already pointed > > out before. Breakage is already there, you just don't notice it. > > > > > Agreed, and once the official docs are updated and a working initramfs is > available we can consider moving forward with things that break separate > /usr. That seemed to be the general consensus on the other thread. > > Right now migrating to initramfs won't do any good, as Gentoo doesn't have > an initramfs available which mounts /usr. No doubt once Fedora gets theirs > working we'll be able to copy it (assuming it is FOSS), or we can write our > own.
I actually have a skeleton for an initramfs that does this here, I just haven't figured out the last step, making an ebuild for it. I think we can do a very simple initramfs that just mounts /usr/and /var without dracut, but if you are using lvm, etc, you will have to use dracut. William
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