On Thu, Sep 08, 2011 at 11:44:41PM +0200, Alan McKinnon 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. > 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. I'm trying to think of some solution that won't annoy lots of people. What on earth were the developers thinking when they swept away the fundamentals assumptions of booting? > -- > Alan McKinnnon > alan.mckin...@gmail.com -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
