So it sounds like /usr being under /dev/dm-1 instead of /dev/mapper does
not look right.
The UUID was tried in the fstab and the same results occurred, same as
with LABEL and mount points.
Since /usr is mounted temporarily at boot it almost looks as if there is
something wrong with the way the initramfs is handling it. The tmpfs is
built into the kernel and the /etc/initramfs.mounts looks correct with
only /usr in it, but /lib/modules was tried also and did not make a
difference.
Could this be a bug with genkernel or udev?
Thanks