[systemd-devel] [RFC] the chopping block

[Ahmed S. Darwish]

Hi :-)

On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 06:06:45PM +0100, Lennart Poettering wrote:
> Heya!
...
> 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. 
>

What about fastboot, < 1 second, _initrd-less_, embedded systems
that usually mount root read-only, while mounting /var as a tmpfs?

Does any solution exist for these systems if such changes are
applied?

Thanks a lot,

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