Lennart Poettering wrote on 11/02/16 17:49: > On Thu, 11.02.16 18:29, Matthias Urlichs (matth...@urlichs.de) wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> Lennart Poettering: >>> 5) Here's the controversial one I think: support for booting up >>> without /var. >> >> Meh. I have quite a few multi-boot systems with a common /var/log >> partition. Plus, unlike the other "spring cleaning" changes this would >> cause a boot failure after update. > > Again: this does not break systems with split off /var, as I tried to > make very clear in my original mail. All that's needed is that the > initrd mounts /var before handing off control to the main system. > > The initrd already does that for / and for /usr, hence /var is just > one more step.
Hmmm, has all the split-usr code been fully removed from systemd now? A quick grep suggests not. While I don't personally have a problem with this removal, I do think that comparing it to /usr is bogus. While you may not *support* /usr being split out and mounted by /, it does still work and systemd *is* still sympathetic to that. The situation with /var is much more brutal. You're suggesting that it would now be something that *has* to be done by the initrd and if you go down that route, you may as well ditch all the split-usr stuff too as if the initrd *has* to mount /var, it may as well do /usr too now even if there were some hold outs. Like I say, I get your reasoning for wanting to do this, but it's not really comparable to /usr support. Col -- Colin Guthrie gmane(at)colin.guthr.ie http://colin.guthr.ie/ Day Job: Tribalogic Limited http://www.tribalogic.net/ Open Source: Mageia Contributor http://www.mageia.org/ PulseAudio Hacker http://www.pulseaudio.org/ Trac Hacker http://trac.edgewall.org/ _______________________________________________ systemd-devel mailing list systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel