On 07/31/2011 02:22 PM, Kacper Kowalik wrote: > W dniu 30.07.2011 15:55, Samuli Suominen pisze: >> On 07/30/2011 01:46 PM, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: >>> On Sat, 30 Jul 2011 10:27:27 +0300 >>> Samuli Suominen <ssuomi...@gentoo.org> wrote: >>>> Since running separate /usr without mounting it from initramfs on top >>>> of / before init is and has been broken with udev for a long time >>>> now[1][2][3] >>>> >>>> [1] http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=364235 >>>> [2] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/UsrMove#Move_all_to_.2Fusr >>>> [3] >>>> http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/separate-usr-is-broken >>>> >>>> Can we warn users about not doing the separate /usr mistake in the >>>> handbook? >>> >>> It's important to consider the timeline here. Separate /usr was >>> accidentally broken by a sudden increase in dependencies from base >>> system packages to desktopy things. It was only later that certain >>> people decided that "oh, separate /usr is a bad idea anyway", and they >>> did so because they couldn't figure out how to fix the mess they'd >>> caused. This is very much a case of carelessly letting the horse escape >>> and then trying to convince everyone that no-one needs a horse anyway... >>> >> >> Someone mentioned NFS mount on /usr. Do we have other reasons? How >> many users that might be? > > That covers headless/diskless clusters and I suspect many people still > do that. > Cheers, > Kacper > >
I haven't tested but it seems this is not a problem afterall: USE="nbd" for dracut enables the NFS support: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Dracut/Options#NFS
