On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 9:05 AM, Tanstaafl <tansta...@libertytrek.org> wrote: > On 2013-08-30 3:16 AM, Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Example, don't want a init thingy, put / on a regular partition and >> normal file system, just make sure you won't fill it up for a very >> long time. Of course /boot has to be on a regular file system too. > > > Well, apparently this now includes /usr, as from what I gleaned from the > earlier thread, there is no guarantee even eudev will continue to support > separate /usr partition in future (since gentoo council has formally voted > to NOT support it without an initramfs)...
udev/eudev has nothing to do with it. It's the init systems (as in both systemd and OpenRC) the ones that are pushing/have pushed for dropping support for it. In Gentoo, the move is being championed by William Hubs: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.project/2946 He's the OpenRC maintainer. NOBODY who has actually worked on the problem wants to support a separate /usr without an initramfs, because it makes no sense. So it doesn't matter if you use udev, eudev, mdev or even a static /dev directory; no init system wants to support a separate /usr without an initramfs. And for a good reason: is braindead. Regards. -- Canek Peláez Valdés Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingeniería de la Computación Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
