[systemd-devel] /usr on separate file system

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Fri Feb 25 11:12:57 PST 2011


Kay Sievers (kay.sievers at vrfy.org) said: 
> >> > Well, it hasn't been working correctly in ages. It's really not new
> >> > policy we came up with here. It's just a warning to the user that setups
> >> > like this will break. End of story.
> >>
> >> Is this flagged for the Fedora 15 release notes?
> >
> > Speaking as a non-systemd maintainer, IMO:
> >
> > - Issues that arise with separate /usr should likely be fixed
> 
> D-Bus has its config there, we rely on D-Bus, so this would be the
> first thing to fix. Unless this is done, the warning is really useful.
> It's more like a "taint" flag that tells "you are on your own here"
> than anything else.

This only matters if systemd relies on dbus, or a dbus-activated service,
to bring up local-fs.target. If it doesn't, it's not an issue.

Bill


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