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Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] dracut 034
Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2013 13:42:16 +0400
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=F7 Fri, 25 Oct 2013 15:37:22 +0200
Harald Hoyer <harald-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org> =D0=C9=DB=C5=D4:

> On 10/25/2013 01:22 PM, EatDirt wrote:
> > On 08/10/13 12:23, Harald Hoyer wrote:
> >> Here comes a new dracut version. Thanks to all who have contribute=
d to this
> >> release.
> >=20
> > Hi guys,
> > sorry if this is not the right place to post, but we have some prob=
lems with mga
> > distributed dracut-034
> >=20
> > For users having two partitions / and /usr; specified in their /etc=
/fstab,
> > without including systemd module, dracut does not automatically inc=
ludes the
> > necessary usrmount module.
> >=20
> > Without usrmount, the initrd yields a kernel panics at boot time. I=
 naively
> > though that dracut would automatically take care of the partitions =
specified in
> > /etc/fstab and therefore "sees" that without systemd added, usrmoun=
t must be
> > present.
> >=20
> > Do you think it is a dracut bug, or we should take care of this at =
the "distro"
> > packaging level?
> >=20
> > Thanks for your help!
> >=20
> > cheers,
> > chris.
> >=20
> >=20
> > PS: the mga full bug report is there (check the last posts):
> >=20
> > https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3D11292
> >=20
>=20
> Hmmm, the usrmount module is automatically included, if /sbin/init is=
 on /usr.
> If it is not on /usr, normally /sbin/init can mount /usr via fstab.
>=20

But this logic breaks systems with separate (not merged) /usr. Accordin=
g
to [1], /usr should be always mounted inside initramfs. For example,
openrc in Gentoo launches udev before mounting filesystems via fstab.

Sorry for offtop. :)

[1] http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/separate-usr-is-broken=
/

--=20
Alexander Tsoy