Re: udev and /usr
Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@hungry.com> writes:
> [Bastian Blank]
>> Why do you not extend the current setup to do another step?
>> Currently we have two
>> - in the initramfs with only minimal information and
>> - during the rcS run with / available.
>
> Eh, currently we have 5 sections during the boot:
>
> - initramfs with minimal set of files available.
> - rcS with only / available read-only (before checkroot.sh)
Migth never happen. And since you can't rely on it ever happening you
can just as well assume it never happens. Just ignore if / becomes
read-write.
> - rcS with / read-write, /var/ and /usr/ might be missing (after checkroot.sh)
> - rcS with / and /var/ read-write (after mountall.sh)
> - rcS with /, /var/ and /usr/ read-write (after mountnfs.sh)
/usr might also never be read-write. But it might be missing at first.
I don't realy see that there is an explicit stage where we have /var
but not /usr. There is a stage where local filesystems are mounted and
one where networking filesystems get mounted. But both /var and /usr
could be local or networked.
> Everything running during boot need to know which section it is
> running it, and avoid using tools and files only guaranteed to be
> available in later sections. In addition, there is an optional
> section split when udev is installed after / is read-only and before
> it is read-write, which is before and after devices in /dev/ are
> available.
>
> In runlevels 2-5 local and NFS file systems are available, so scripts
> running from there can be a less carefyl
>
> Happy hacking,
> --
> Petter Reinholdtsen
Just splitting into initramfs, only / read-only and everything seems
sufficient.
MfG
Goswin
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