Am Donnerstag, 8. September 2011, 23:44:41 schrieb Alan McKinnon: > On Thu, 8 Sep 2011 21:29:40 +0000 > > Alan Mackenzie <a...@muc.de> wrote: > > Would it not be possible to have a minimal /usr tree in the root > > partition for udev's use at boot time, and to later mount a more > > robust /usr partition over this? What am I missing here? > > A big problem will be that the package manager cannot easily maintain > that "phase 1" code as it's under another mount point. Doing so would > require the package manager to bind-mount / somewhere and > copy updated binaries of essential packages there as well as into the > real /usr. Not an insurmountable problem, it just requires changes to > all affected packages, and well within the capabilities of distros.
Couldn't whatever mounts /usr bind-mount this "hidden" /usr somewhere (where, I think, could be a good question here) before mounting the real one? Then it would be visible even after the real /usr is mounted. > As a workaround, it's certainly a fine example. But I suspect it will > annoy a lot of users and support people due to this "hidden" code being > on the filesystem. If I were a package maintainer, I know I'd feel a > little annoyed with having to track yet another trait in my packages. Agreed. Regards, Michael
