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Re: support for merged /usr in Debian



Am 05.01.2016 um 01:17 schrieb Adam Borowski:
> On Mon, Jan 04, 2016 at 08:43:02PM +0100, Michael Biebl wrote:
>> Am 04.01.2016 um 19:12 schrieb Eric Valette:
>>>> Remember that / and /usr don't have to reside on the same partition with
>>>> the usrmerge proposal: they only have to be both available
>>>> post-initramfs.  The initramfs already takes care to mount /usr (for the
>>>> systemd case as initscripts needs updates for sysvinit as was said
>>>> elsewhere).  So no repartitioning should be required on upgrades.
>>> As explained elsewhere in this thread, using initramfs is still not
>>> mandatory in debian
>>
>> an initramfs is not mandatory as long as you don't have /usr on a
>> separate partition.
>> No initramfs + split /usr is not supported and has been broken for a while.
> 
> I guess you meant "with systemd".  

Nice try, but no. Those issues are not specific to systemd.


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