...and recombining again.. On 2011-10-17, at 1:24 PM, Zac Medico <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 10/17/2011 09:02 AM, Ian Stakenvicius wrote: >> Splitting this up since i'm kind of starting two threads here.. >> >> ----- Documentation discussion ----- >> On 16/10/11 02:44 PM, Zac Medico wrote: >>> >>> Well, you'll have to define the meaning of "support" in this context. I >>> simply said that it shouldn't be encouraged, with me reason being that >>> it tends to add unnecessary complexity (in violation of the KISS >>> principle [1]). >>> >> >> I would agree with this (that it shouldn't be encouraged), but I don't >> think the Handbook is encouraging it now, as it is written.. > > It depends on how you define "encouraging" in this context. The fact > that /usr is shown as a separate partition might be considered > "suggestive" if not "encouraging". If a user takes that suggestion > without knowing the consequences (special initramfs or linuxrc init > wrapper configuration), then then it could cause some disappointment > when they finally discover the consequences. > >> ----- Support/implementation discussion ----- >> >>> ... If people want that, I think it's perfectly >>> reasonable to expect them to use either an initramfs or a simple linuxrc >>> approach [2] to ensure that /usr is mounted before init starts. >> >> ...this would make sense, although in terms of "support" i think it >> would be appropriate that we would provide this linuxrc wrapper on any >> init system that needs /usr mounted. > > If someone wants to take on the burden of maintaining an init wrapper > like that, then I guess that's fine. However, I wouldn't consider it to > be an absolute requirement. I think it would be fine (maybe preferable) > to simply provide a doc that describes how to mount /usr via an > initramfs or linuxrc init wrapper. Such a doc would only be needed by > those users who require that /usr be on a separate partition. This makes sense. So the Handbook could be updated with a caveat after the large partition example to say something like "/usr on it's own partition needs special consideration, please see XXXXX" ... this works.
