[systemd-devel] Antw: [EXT] Re: [systemd‑devel] Dropping split‑usr/unmerged‑usr support

Lennart Poettering lennart at poettering.net
Fri Apr 8 08:43:10 UTC 2022


On Fr, 08.04.22 10:11, Ulrich Windl (Ulrich.Windl at rz.uni-regensburg.de) wrote:

> > So, my guess would be that the people who dislike merged‑/usr are also
> > the ones who dislike systemd, no? i.e. do they really matter if we are
> > talking about what to support in systemd? They'd not use our stuff
> > anyway, so why bother?
>
> Maybe explain why systemd required /usr to be part of the root filesystem
> instead.

We do not require that. What we do require is that /usr/ is mounted
during the initrd → host transition.

> Maybe also explain the chicken-egg race with temporary directories that
> systemd added.

Hm?

> Maybe just add a manual page systemd-filesystem-concepts ;-)

https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/file-hierarchy.html

Lennart

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