[systemd-devel] FYI: update about separate /usr

Kay Sievers kay.sievers at vrfy.org
Sun Jul 10 19:46:09 PDT 2011


Just a note,
I've updated parts of the page which systemd points to, in case it
finds an empty /usr at bootup:
  http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/separate-usr-is-broken

If your distro wants to support a separate /usr, please make sure the
initramfs of that distro supports to mount /usr from *inside* the
initramfs and does not rely on 'init' to bring up the system with only
half of the tools available. There are no plans to move more tools to
the rootfs or add any more weird hacks to tools, to support booting up
a system with an empty /usr.

Thanks,
Kay


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