On 2012-01-01 11:50 PM, Olivier Crête wrote: > systemd/dracut/etc handles /usr on its own filesystem just fine. What is > required is that /usr must be mounted before the pivot_root away from > the initramfs.
Nitpick: I don't think pivot_root is used anymore. It is basically unlink, mount, chroot and exec now (i.e. switch_root). RedHat made some bad design decisions on RPM (.rpmnew files anyone?) and udev. Udev was probably salvagable before systemd but noone has the motivation or the man-power to manage the huge delta that would result now. It would probably amount to forking udev. So people are following along even if they are unhappy. Plus Redhat did not support in-place upgrades last time I checked. So they don't really care for a lot of problems that are important for us. Regarding the original question, I belive there are 2 issues here: 1. Requiring initramfs (or dracut or whatever) for separate /usr 2. Migrating /bin to /usr/bin, /sbin to /usr/sbin etc. For the first point, we should start requiring initramfs of some sort for separate /usr now. That train has passed. For the second point, we should hold on as long as we deem appropriate. Then reconsider and -most probably- move ahead with the migration. Main point is not to break existing installations by making the move too quickly. Give sysadmins time to to adjust, resize partitions if necessary etc. Do not go for half way solutions (i.e. number 2 in the original email). As a side note, thank you and keep up your good work on OpenRC. I find it is easier, cleaner and in general superior to systemd especially in server settings. And for my laptop, I don't really care which init system is used anyway. -- Eray Aslan <e...@gentoo.org>
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