On 30/09/2013 08:31, pk wrote: > On 2013-09-30 00:04, Alan McKinnon wrote: > >> It's the general idea that you can leave /usr unmounted until some >> random arb time later in the startup sequence and just expect things to >> work out fine that is broken. >> >> It just happened to work OK for years because nothing happened to use >> the code in /usr at that point in the sequence. More and more we are >> seeing that this is no longer the case. > > So basically it wasn't broke before stuff started to use the code in > /usr. How isn't that breaking? > >> So no-one broke it with a specific commit. It has always been broken by >> design becuase it's a damn stupid idea that just happened to work by >> fluke. IT and computing is rife with this kind of error. > > If what you are saying is true then *everything* is broken "by design" > if something isn't available at boot time (may be /usr, may be /var or > whatever).
I never mentioned /var at all. Go back and read again what I did write. -- Alan McKinnon [email protected]
