[systemd-devel] [RFC] the chopping block

[Andrei Borzenkov]

11.02.2016 20:06, Lennart Poettering пишет:
> 
> 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 am tempted to stop
>    supporting this altogether. Of course, this does *not* mean that
>    people with split off /var would be left in the cold. It just means
>    that they have to mount /var from the initrd, exactly like this is
>    already handled from /usr. 
> 

Does it apply to whole /var, to each part of /var or to specific subdirs
in /var? In openSUSE various subtrees under /var are split off in
individual volumes on btrfs, forcing mounting them all in initrd is not
much appealing.