On 9/13/2011 10:40 AM, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 07:50:13PM +0200, Michael Schreckenbauer wrote:
it works for you, because your udev-rules need nothing from /usr/*
It's *not* udev requiring /usr, it's the scripts triggered by the rules.
Ah. OK. Maybe I've misunderstood the whole thing. Could it be that
there's no explicit requirement for early mounting of /usr, providing one
has the discipline to keep everything needed for booting in the /
partition?
I don't think you are misunderstanding things. According to
the originally referenced email thread:
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(From KS@Fedora):
We are actually currently planning to move all tools from
the rootfs to /usr, where they belong and sort out the
chaotic split of install locations. There will be only
compat symlinks left in / then.
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The udev package (and, apparently, everything else from
Fedora) will, as distributed by the upstream developers,
install itself to /usr instead of /. *Right now* udev fails
to load a specific device if /usr is not mounted and the
udev rule tries to access something in /usr. *In the future*
udev will fail to load at all if /usr is not mounted, if the
changes progress as they are being proposed.
--Mike
