Albert W. Hopkins wrote:
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.
Have you been here the last week or so? We have been discussing this
change for that long. I got the info from -dev. Alex posted the same
so I guess I was reading it right. I agree it is dumb but that doesn't
appear to sway the devs a bit.
Dale
:-) :-)
