Bug#652459: initramfs-tools: [patch] Please support mounting of /usr in the initramfs
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On Jan 01, Klaus Ethgen <Klaus@Ethgen.de> wrote:
What is being discussed in this bug is not if /usr should be mounted in
the initramfs or not. This is a widely accepted design. The purpose of
this bug is to implement it in the best way.
> 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.)
Yes, you are wrong.
And thanks to this patch in the future it will be possibile to mount all
static OS data via NFS with an everything-in-/usr setup.
> And there is even more cases where the
> /usr mount needs to be done later in init stack.
Care to show some of these use cases?
> And I even fear about what to solve with this patch. I usually use a
> non-initram-kernel to boot my systems and have /usr on separate device.
This will not be a supported configuration anymore.
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ciao,
Marco
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