On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 03:05:50AM +0000, Darren Salt wrote: > [snip] > > Even the claims of the Gentoo people about the separate /usr partition > > are unjustified [4]. > > > [4] http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/separate-usr-is-broken > > From that page: > > “There is no way to reliably bring up a modern system with an empty /usr.” > > False, on the assumption that by that they mean ‘with /usr mounted after init > has been started’. They mean "with /usr mounted after the commands mentioned on the page have been invoked", as the init itself doesn't need /usr to be started.
> Or at least it was when I last booted the box on which this was written (last > month; and as that's running wheezy and has reasonably recent hardware, I'd > consider it ‘modern’¹). You should understand that "it seems to work for me" is not a valid argument here. "Most of the failures you will experience with /usr split off and not pre-mounted in the initramfs are graceful failures: they won't become directly visible, however certain features become unavailable due to these failures. " -- WBR, wRAR
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