On Sunday, September 11 at 18:54 (-0500), Dale said:
> I think I saw it mentioned on -dev that some time shortly /usr > and /var > will be needed on / or you will need the init* thingy to boot. > That's > was my understanding of this mess. So, if you are about to do a > install > that needs /var on its own partition, I would ask a dev to see how > you > should plan. I could have misunderstood but I'm pretty sure it's > coming. It may also depend on what you are going to be running too. > I > mention because no need doing it one way now and having to fix it > later. That sucks! > > That said, I have /var on its own partition and mine boots fine, > although I haven't rebooted in a week or so. I don't think the > change > has happened yet but is coming. I may have a different answer in a > month or so. ;-) > > Dale > Hmm, that doesn't smell right to me. What I think you may have heard is about /run. systemd and some other things are preferring to move /var/run to /run. The reason being is that /var does not have to be on the root fs. sysdemd needs /run early (before mounting filesystems) so the idea was to put /var/run on the rootfs, thus /run. I don't think /usr should or ever will be required to be on the rootfs. That's just dumb. The reason we have /bin /sbin, etc. is so that /usr need not be on the rootfs. It doesn't make sense to change that well known/established notion. See also the FHS.
