On Fri, Sep 2, 2022 at 11:05 AM Mike Gilbert <flop...@gentoo.org> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Sep 2, 2022 at 9:01 AM Marc Schiffbauer <msch...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> >
> > * Mike Gilbert schrieb am 01.09.22 um 03:38 Uhr:
> > > On Wed, Aug 31, 2022 at 12:29 PM Jaco Kroon <j...@uls.co.za> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > That really depends.
> > > >
> > > > If the expectation is that everything in /usr/{bin,sbin,lib*} needs to
> > > > now fit on / rather than /usr we're queued to re-install a very, very
> > > > large number of hosts.
> > >
> > > You have that reversed: the expectation is that everything in
> > > /{bin,sbin,lib} will fit in /usr. In other words, we move files from /
> > > into /usr.
> >
> > So does this mean, that having /usr on a seperate filesystem remains
> > "supported" but is now only possible with a proper initrd?
>
> Switching to merged-usr does make it pretty much impossible to boot
> without an initramfs if /usr is on a separate filesystem.
>
> Having /usr on a separate filesystem without an initramfs to mount it
> has been "unsupported" for several years; the council made a decision
> on that in 2013 [1].
>
> [1] https://projects.gentoo.org/council/meeting-logs/20130813-summary.txt
To more directly answer your question: yes, having /usr on a separate
filesystem is still "supported" with an appropriate initramfs.
