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From: Sven Vermeulen <swift@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: locations of binaries and separate /usr
Date: Thu, 05 Jan 2012 20:45:17
Message-Id: 20120105204433.GA4383@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: locations of binaries and separate /usr by Ciaran McCreesh
1 On Thu, Jan 05, 2012 at 08:08:44PM +0000, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
2 > > > Or will /etc move to /usr too?
3 > >
4 > > No, /etc isn't going anywhere.
5 >
6 > Are you sure? I heard a rumour that systemd will soon require you to
7 > put /etc inside your initrd (since / can't be mounted without it).
8 > Obviously, you'd have to reboot if you made any changes to your config
9 > files, but that's OK since you can't safely restart daemons anyway.
10
11 They've thought of that, and will make
12 - kexec mandatory so that reboots are not needed for those times you
13 need to switch kernels
14 - make hibernation mandatory for the other times