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From: the <the.guard@××××.ru>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] separate / and /usr to require initramfs 2013-11-01
Date: Wed, 02 Oct 2013 16:58:13
Message-Id: 524C509A.40503@mail.ru
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] separate / and /usr to require initramfs 2013-11-01 by Greg Woodbury
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4 On 09/29/13 15:03, Greg Woodbury wrote:
5 > On 09/29/2013 06:55 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
6 >
7 >> why do you bring up udev and systemd AT ALL?
8 >>
9 >> They are not the problem or the reason why seperate /usr is prone
10 >> to break.
11 >>
12 > Except that systemd *is* why a seperate /usr is broken now. Parts
13 > of the libraries that systemd depend on we *deliberately* placed in
14 > /usr despite the fact that they are needed to bbring the system to
15 > an operational state. For *years* things required to boot the
16 > system were defined to be in the root file system, and items not
17 > required until after mounting had been accomplished were to be
18 > placed in /usr.
19
20 Why would someone do that?
21
22 > BTW: There is a standard (The File System Hierarch Standard - FSS)
23 > that existed and described this behaviour. It was killed off by
24 > deliberate vendor refusals to support or adhere to it. In
25 > frustration, the folks involved simply gave up.
26 >
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