On Thu, 29 Mar 2012 00:26:40 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote about Re:
[gentoo-user] InitRAMFS - boot expert sought:

> On Wed, 28 Mar 2012 23:01:24 +0100
> David W Noon <dwnoon@...> wrote:
[snip]
> > With the pending changes to udev scripts, you could well need /var
> > -- and anything else -- before udev starts.  So it is in the same
> > category as /usr.
> 
> Maybe, maybe not.
> 
> However, no-one apart from you is even suggesting such a thing. For my
> part I'm going to ignore that possibility and concentrate on those
> things that are being seriously suggested.

The Gentoo developers have been discussing just that.  The reason is
that many of the daemons that can be started by udev scripts require
work files on /var, so we could well need /var mounted too.
-- 
Regards,

Dave  [RLU #314465]
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