[systemd-devel] Systemd loads units before btrfs subvolumes are mounted

Lennart Poettering lennart at poettering.net
Thu May 26 09:39:15 UTC 2016


On Thu, 26.05.16 10:20, Mantas Mikulėnas (grawity at gmail.com) wrote:

> Some distros (e.g. Debian) configure systemd to use /lib instead of
> /usr/lib.
> 
> In other distros (e.g. Arch or Gentoo), it's generally been agreed that it
> needs to be pre-mounted by the initramfs – since /usr often contains
> libraries and binaries required for mounting /usr.

This is kinda the only thing we really support. Booting without /usr
pre-mounted is dangerous territory.

Also see:

https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/separate-usr-is-broken/

Lennart

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