On Monday, September 12, 2011 10:24:05 PM Alex Schuster wrote: > Canek Peláez Valdés writes: > > But what you guys don't seem to realize is that /lib and /bin and > > /sbin was the original hack: everything really should go into /usr, > > because now (with an initramfs) we can do what we were not able 30 > > years ago. We not need anything in /, really. > > You do have a point here. > > > Anyway, I'm not trying to convince anyone. Just wanted to show the > > links and to make clear among other things that *no one* has ever > > proposed (even less try to force) a non separatable /var. You can > > speculate all you want, but that's all: speculation. > > I cannot find it, but I'm very sure I just read about /var also being > affected. But it looks indeed like that will not be necessary at all.
What about dependencies for: /var/lock/lvm/..... (For LVM-operations) /var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket (Isn't "dbus" going to be part of systemd?) To me, this seems like either these need to be moved to "/", or there is a dependency for /var. > > Going back to work: nice chatting with you guys. > > Thanks for your input and your time. > > Personally, I don't really care that much. Either I somehow update my > initramfs (I expect this to be easy) to include the stuff needed > formounting /usr, or I extend my root partition and put /usr in it. I > still don't like that much, but there are just more important problems, > and it's really not such a big deal. Just another big update that needs > manual intervention, as it happens from time to time. Like the migration > to openrc for example. I wonder why no one complained about that when it > happened. The migration to openrc went fine for me when it went into stable. The only issue I had was that /etc/init.d/net.eth0 didn't exist. That was an easy fix. I'm glad I always have access to the console here. This was also reported quite early in the documentation and mailing lists, which I checked *after* I upgraded one of the xen-domains on the server. This requirement is going to force me to use an init* for all my machines and I need to check how to get this to work for Xen PV-domains. I have managed to avoid using bootloaders for this as I don't store the kernel on the domains themselves. -- Joost
