Re: [gentoo-dev] Warn users not to do separate /usr partition without proper initramfs in the handbook?

[William Hubbs]

On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 10:27:27AM +0300, Samuli Suominen wrote:
> Since running separate /usr without mounting it from initramfs on top of
> / before init is and has been broken with udev for a long time now[1][2][3]
>
> [1] http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=364235
> [2] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/UsrMove#Move_all_to_.2Fusr
> [3] http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/separate-usr-is-broken
>
> Can we warn users about not doing the separate /usr mistake in the handbook?

There are actually two options for us according to upstream. One is the
one you are talking about -- mounting /usr from an initramfs before / is
mounted. The other is to mount local file systems, if setups are simple
enough, before we start udev. I could set this one up easily enough just
by moving localmount to the boot runlevel.

Can we discuss both options?

William