On 11/02/16 17:06, Lennart Poettering wrote: > 5) Here's the controversial one I think: support for booting up > without /var. We have kludges at quite a few places because we > cannot access /var early during boot.
I don't think /var is really the same thing as /usr: for a start, it has to be read/write, whereas /usr and / can be read-only for at least the early stages of boot. On stateless systems with a read-only / and /etc, requiring /var to be mounted from the initramfs would mean that the mechanism for setting up /var (NFS or tmpfs or whatever) would have to move into the initramfs. Which specific subdirectories of /var do you want mounted before pid 1 starts? Presumably /var/lib/systemd and /var/log, and everything that's necessary to mount those, but not necessarily their siblings? Would it be feasible to buffer read/write stuff in /run until /var comes up, and then write it out afterwards? (I realise that's already how some of it works, notably the Journal.) -- Simon McVittie Collabora Ltd. <http://www.collabora.com/> _______________________________________________ systemd-devel mailing list systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
