On 01/04/2016 12:15 PM, Marc Haber wrote: > On Mon, 04 Jan 2016 12:01:46 +0100, Ansgar Burchardt >> Remember that / and /usr don't have to reside on the same partition with >> the usrmerge proposal: they only have to be both available >> post-initramfs. The initramfs already takes care to mount /usr (for the >> systemd case as initscripts needs updates for sysvinit as was said >> elsewhere). So no repartitioning should be required on upgrades. > > I'd like to have a positive confirmation that systemd upstream intends > to continue supporting this scheme and that Debian will also. Separate partitions mounted in the initramfs? The whole reason for the UsrMerge is to make a separate /usr filesystem more interesting - see the things in the proposal itself and what I've reiterated in [1]. And the systemd developers are actively interested in things such as stateless systems or sharing /usr in containers etc. Also, just from a technical perspective: systemd is also designed to work in containers, where filesystems are often already pre-mounted to their respective locations. So systemd must already cope with the fact that when it's started some mounts may already be present. If you couple that with the idea that the initrd mounts /usr, then it is trivially true that /usr can be separate, as long as it's already mounted before systemd is executed. That will hold true even IF systemd developers decide to drop support for mounting /usr from a running system. I'm not saying that somebody couldn't break that scenario if they tried really hard, but from a technical perspective. Regards, Christian [1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2016/01/msg00106.html
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