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Am Sonntag, 23. Dezember 2012, 19:44:43 schrieb Nuno J. Silva: |
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> On 2012-12-23, Alan Mackenzie wrote: |
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> > On Sun, Dec 23, 2012 at 07:03:25PM +0200, Nuno J. Silva wrote: |
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> >> On 2012-12-23, Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> >> > On Sun, 23 Dec 2012 12:22:24 +0200 |
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> >> > |
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> >> > nunojsilva@×××××××.pt (Nuno J. Silva) wrote: |
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> >> >> On 2012-12-18, Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> >> >> > On Tue, 18 Dec 2012 09:08:53 -0500 |
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> >> >> > Michael Mol <mikemol@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> >> >> > |
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> >> >> > This sentence summarizes my understanding of your post nicely: |
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> >> >> >> Now, why is /usr special? It's because it contains executable code |
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> >> >> >> the system might require while launching. |
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> >> >> > |
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> >> >> > Now there are only two approaches that could solve that problem: |
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> >> >> > |
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> >> >> > 1. Avoid it entirely |
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> >> >> > 2. Deal with it using any of a variety of bootstrap techniques |
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> >> >> > |
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> >> >> > #1 is handled by policy, whereby any code the system might require |
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> >> >> > while launching is not in /usr. |
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> >> >> > |
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> >> >> > #2 already has a solution, it's called an init*. Other solutions |
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> >> >> > exist but none are as elegant as a throwaway temporary filesystem |
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> >> >> > in RAM. |
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> >> >> What about just mounting /usr as soon as the system boots? |
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> >> > |
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> >> > Please read the thread next time. The topic under discussion is |
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> >> > solutions to the problem of not being able to do exactly that. |
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> >> Then I suppose you can surely explain in a nutshell why can't init |
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> >> scripts simply do that? |
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> > |
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> > Because certain people with influence have rearranged the filesystem so |
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> > that programs within /usr are absolutely necessary for booting; they are |
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> > needed _before_ init has a chance to mount /usr. So either /usr has to |
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> > be in the root partition, or crazy kludges need to be used to mount /usr |
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> > before the kernel runs init. |
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> I surely don't know the udev architecture well enough, but if this is |
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> all done by the udev daemon, can't we just "mount /usr" before the |
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> daemon is started? The only needed things should be mount (which is |
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> under /bin here) and /etc/fstab. |
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and a device node in /dev - like /dev/sda2. And how do you get that one |
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without udev? |
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oops? |
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