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On Sun, 23 Dec 2012 19:44:43 +0200, Nuno J. Silva wrote: |
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> > Because certain people with influence have rearranged the filesystem |
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> > so that programs within /usr are absolutely necessary for booting; |
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> > they are needed _before_ init has a chance to mount /usr. So |
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> > either /usr has to be in the root partition, or crazy kludges need to |
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> > be used to mount /usr 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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Because before we can mount thye block device containing the filesystem |
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for /usr, we have to make that block device available. You are |
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only considering the case of /usr being on a plain hard disk partition, |
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what if it in on an LVM volume, or encrypted (or both) of mounted over |
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the network? All of these require something to be run before they can be |
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mounted, and if that cannot be run until udev has started, we have been |
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painted into a corner. |
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Neil Bothwick |
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