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On Tue, Jan 03, 2012 at 11:03:04AM -0500, Ian Stakenvicius wrote: |
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> On 01/01/12 05:15 AM, Zac Medico wrote: |
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> > Overall, a migration like this should go pretty smoothly as long as |
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> > people with separate /usr take appropriate actions to make sure their |
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> > systems will boot. People without separate /usr can basically relax and |
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> > enjoy the ride. |
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> If a separate /usr is the only holdback, would it not be possible to |
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> simply add static devnodes to the pre-udev /dev , and make a pre-init |
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> wrapper script that mounts /usr ? |
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I've thought about this, but a wrapper script assumes that the things it |
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needs are still available in /, so any wrapper script we make will break |
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as soon as something it needs migrates to /usr. For example, consider |
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what happens when bash or all of coreutils migrate to /usr. |
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William |
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