On Fri, Jan 8, 2016 at 7:16 AM, Simon McVittie wrote: > I really don't think that's a good approach, particularly as a default. > We already have tools to make a minimal bootable environment that can > mount /usr and do some limited recovery, and the result is called an > initramfs. If you want a lighter-weight initramfs for environments where > those generated by initramfs-tools or dracut are overkill, Christian > Seiler has a nice proof-of-concept elsewhere in the thread, which > apparently compiles to less than 16K.
The idea was for those who don't want an initramfs or can't use an initramfs (someone mentioned some Debian platforms can't) but still want /usr on a separate partition. Essentially it is what the Unix people should have done back in the day instead of hardcoding the contents of /bin /sbin /lib. -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise