On Tue, 12.07.11 16:12, Dr. Werner Fink ([email protected]) wrote:

> 
> 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 ;)

Well, they are already alone with that if they really do. The suse
kernel doesn't boot without initramfs, and it's not supported on rhel
either.

Lennart

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Lennart Poettering - Red Hat, Inc.
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