On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 02:46:02PM +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote: > On Mon, 11.07.11 18:59, Dr. Werner Fink ([email protected]) wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > many users/sysadmins are alarmed by the messages of the systemd init > > as systemd does complain that /usr as a separate partition isn't > > supported anymore[1,2,3,4]. > > split-off /usr is fine. > > What isn't supported really anymore is /usr that isn't available all the > time during boot. > > In other words: as long as you mount /usr in the initramfs everything is > fine. In fact you could even split off /etc if you want to -- as long as > you mount it in initramfs -- and not wait for it until you jumped into > the main system. > > To my knowledge FHS doesn't really deal with how the system looks like > during the earlier stages of the boot process, and hence this discussion > is irrelevant for LSB or FHS.
I do not have any problems with this approach but I'm aware of many users/customers which do have problems with such an approach. Some of them even do not like initramfs ;) Therefore this could be relevant for FHS as customers refer to FHS. Werner -- Dr. Werner Fink - SuSE LINUX Products GmbH _______________________________________________ fhs-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/fhs-discuss
