From: | Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o> | ||
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To: | gentoo-dev@l.g.o | ||
Cc: | gentoo-dev@l.g.o | ||
Subject: | Re: [gentoo-dev] Warn users not to do separate /usr partition without proper initramfs in the handbook? | ||
Date: | Sat, 30 Jul 2011 10:40:42 | ||
Message-Id: | CAGfcS_nf2h+ioa4VbpY9Y7GhrE4R0VLET1Av7JrnuVNEf3S+eA@mail.gmail.com | ||
In Reply to: | [gentoo-dev] Warn users not to do separate /usr partition without proper initramfs in the handbook? by Samuli Suominen |
1 | On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 3:27 AM, Samuli Suominen <ssuominen@g.o> wrote: |
2 | > Since running separate /usr without mounting it from initramfs on top of |
3 | > / before init is and has been broken with udev for a long time now[1][2][3] |
4 | > |
5 | > [1] http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=364235 |
6 | > [2] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/UsrMove#Move_all_to_.2Fusr |
7 | > [3] http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/separate-usr-is-broken |
8 | > |
9 | > Can we warn users about not doing the separate /usr mistake in the handbook? |
10 | |
11 | My feeling is that we should still consider this a supported |
12 | configuration, so any warning should be along the lines of "note that |
13 | we're still having issues making this work properly so be careful for |
14 | now." Or, better still explain how to configure the initramfs to |
15 | mount /usr. |
16 | |
17 | I actually run this configuration without an initramfs and haven't had |
18 | issues so far. If you want to run with a small root partition I don't |
19 | see much alternative. |
20 | |
21 | Does the genkernel initramfs mount /usr currently? |
22 | |
23 | Rich |