On 2013-09-30 00:04, Alan McKinnon wrote: > It's the general idea that you can leave /usr unmounted until some > random arb time later in the startup sequence and just expect things to > work out fine that is broken. > > It just happened to work OK for years because nothing happened to use > the code in /usr at that point in the sequence. More and more we are > seeing that this is no longer the case.
So basically it wasn't broke before stuff started to use the code in /usr. How isn't that breaking? > So no-one broke it with a specific commit. It has always been broken by > design becuase it's a damn stupid idea that just happened to work by > fluke. IT and computing is rife with this kind of error. If what you are saying is true then *everything* is broken "by design" if something isn't available at boot time (may be /usr, may be /var or whatever). Best regards Peter K
