Re: /usr (was: Re: Survey answers part 3: systemd is not portable and what this) means for our ports
On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 11:25:42AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 05:07:39PM +0100, Roger Leigh wrote:
> > - using the same infrastructure, it's also possible to
> > mount /etc in the initramfs so that you can have e.g. a
> > separately encrypted /etc filesystem. This is a separate
> > feature though and can be split out.
>
> This reflects poorly on the infrastructure in question.
I'm merely referring to the generalisation of the local/nfs
scripts to allow mounting of arbitrary filesystems. There's
nothing wrong with this this support code.
> Handling /etc as a
> separate filesystem from /, aside from not being a feature anyone else
> has asked for and not being a requirement for reducing deltas with upstreams
> / other distros, implies that the initramfs has to have a copy of the
> information from /etc/fstab. This is *not* how this should be handled.
I certainly didn't mean to imply this, because this is not what
is being done here. Nothing is stored in the initramfs.
> The
> initramfs should take the information about the root filesystem from the
> kernel commandline, and its information about /usr from /etc/fstab *on the
> root filesystem once it has been mounted*.
>
> Anything else is a wrong design.
We certainly do this for / and /usr.
The information for mounting /etc is passed on the kernel command-line
exactly as for the rootfs; while I've so far only tested it by hand,
tools such as update-grub could potentially add it in the same way
they handle the rootfs, if such a feature was in use.
Note that this part was merely added as a proposal only as a
demonstration of what could be done /if this was desirable to have/.
If not, then it can be dropped. It was included solely that it could
be reviewed.
Regards,
Roger
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