On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 1:23 PM, Dan Johansson <dan.johans...@dmj.nu> wrote: >> > This is definitely not a choice that the gentoo disto made; it is coming >> > from several upstreams. >> >> I know it is from upstream but it still tastes really bad. ;-) > > I can only agree! > I am having /usr on a LVM volume on all systems (Gentoo and non Gentoo). > This will be a MAJOR issue if /usr needs to be on /.
It is my understanding that /usr does *not* need to be on /, only that if you do, you will need an initramfs. Look at http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/72275 and the thread that followed it. After reading that, and other similar threads, I still don't understand the benefits of a separated /usr. Mounting it read-only seems the only sensible one, and then I think is better to go all the way and mount / read-only. But that's just me: anyway, anyone will be able to keep /usr in another partition if so they desire it. They will only need to use an initramfs. Regards. -- Canek Peláez Valdés Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingeniería de la Computación Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
