[systemd-devel] [RFC] the chopping block

[Lennart Poettering]

On Thu, 11.02.16 18:29, Matthias Urlichs (matthias at urlichs.de) wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Lennart Poettering:
> > 5) Here's the controversial one I think: support for booting up
> >    without /var.
> 
> Meh. I have quite a few multi-boot systems with a common /var/log
> partition. Plus, unlike the other "spring cleaning" changes this would
> cause a boot failure after update.

Again: this does not break systems with split off /var, as I tried to
make very clear in my original mail. All that's needed is that the
initrd mounts /var before handing off control to the main system.

The initrd already does that for / and for /usr, hence /var is just
one more step.

Lennart

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Lennart Poettering, Red Hat