Canek Peláez Valdés posted on Sat, 14 Jul 2012 16:29:19 -0500 as excerpted:
> If your /usr is in the same partition as /, then udev and systemd > supports your configuration *without* an initramfs. I have it like that > in a couple of servers, and actually I only use an initramfs in my > laptop and desktop because I like plymouth. > > If your /usr is in a separate partition as /, and you don't want to use > an initramfs, you're free to do so. Only then udev (and systemd, > if you use it) will not support your configuration, and any problem you > encounter will be ignored in their mailing lists/bugzillas. BTW, any "gentooish" documentation out there on rootfs as tmpfs, with /etc and the like mounted on top of it, operationally ro, rw remounted for updates? That's obviously going to take an initr*, which I've never really understood to the point I'm comfortable with my ability to recover from problems so I've not run one since my Mandrake era, but that's a status that can change, and what with the /usr move and some computer problems I just finished dealing with, I've been thinking about the possibility lately. So if there's some good docs on the topic someone can point me at, I'd be grateful. =:^) I'm aware of the issues with /etc/mtab and have googled a bit on the workarounds, but that looks like a decent amount of work, and if I'm going to do that, I might as well invest the time and do it right, initr*, full tmpfs rootfs with everything non-volatile mounted on top, the whole shebang! -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman
