[systemd-devel] [RFC] the chopping block

[Lennart Poettering]

On Thu, 11.02.16 20:48, Andrei Borzenkov (arvidjaar at gmail.com) wrote:

> 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.

btrfs's subvolumes are pretty nice as they are just special
directories. There's no need to mount them in any special way.

That said, this is about /var/log and these kinds of things. If some
random late-boot package needs something under /var (let's say mysql
needs /var/lib/mysql), then systemd really doesn't care about it...

Lennart

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Lennart Poettering, Red Hat