Bug#652459: initramfs-tools: [patch] Please support mounting of /usr in the initramfs

[Klaus Ethgen <Klaus@Ethgen.de>]

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No "Hi" at the begin as it seems to be not common sense anymore to
greet before answering.

Am Do den  2. Jan 2014 um 13:46 schrieb Roger Leigh:
> > This will prevent from using /usr via NFS or having a /usr md device or
> > having /usr on LVM (Not sure about any of this issues, as I use initram
> > only on systems with a NFS /usr.) And there is even more cases where the
> > /usr mount needs to be done later in init stack.
> 
> This patchset will continue to allow you to have /usr on NFS and/or
> MD/LVM.  However, it will require you to use an initramfs to mount
> /usr as a separate filesystem.

And that will break all systems that are well designed by having a
separate /usr and have, for any well decided reason, no initram. And
there are several reasons why you would not want to have it.

And, in my case, that would break most of my systems as I usually avoid
to use a initram.

> /usr on NFS is fairly pointless
> though--just have the whole rootfs (including /usr) on NFS and be
> done with it.

Please don't tell people pointless (or stupid) if they do something you
cannot imagine.

There are use cases where a /usr on NFS is great thing.

> 
> This patchset is unrelated to the init system; it will need minor
> changes to util-linux mount and sysvinit to avoid mounting /usr in
> mountall.

/usr have to be mounted in mountall due the above I descripted.

Regards
   Klaus
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