On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 8:59 AM, Mark Hatle <[email protected]> wrote: > On 1/6/12 4:34 AM, Koen Kooi wrote: >> >> >> Op 6 jan. 2012, om 11:09 heeft Martin Jansa het volgende geschreven: >> >>> FWIW today I've noticed that systemd is going other way around >>> http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/separate-usr-is-broken >> >> >> And http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/UsrMove >> >> I guess it's time to publish my angstrom branch doing that after the >> holidays :) > > > I respectfully disagree with both of the above URLs. > > The root partition is still very useful as a "small" set of applications and > libraries required for booting. > > Most systems these days contain a combined root and usr partition, which is > fine. However, there are a lot of systems that I've worked on in the past > and I expect in the future that, root being a small R/O system is necessary. > > initramfs can solve some problems, but introduces other issues. Many of the > systems I've worked on simple don't have enough flash to be able to store > the bootloader, kernel and an initramfs [as well as other system items > required by the devices]. In this case a base rootfs makes the most sense.
In my opinion, what's proposed in the two links is a good thing even for embedded. Not that we'd use that structure necessarily, but removing the usr vs non-usr separation for binaries and libs is a good thing regardless. Putting /usr in the rootfs still would still work fine, or you could drop usr entirely and move everything to / the way micro does. -- Christopher Larson _______________________________________________ Openembedded-core mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core
