Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (710 mails)

[Guido Berhoerster <gber@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

* Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@xxxxxxx> [2011-06-16 14:46]:
> On Thu, 2011-06-16 at 14:23 +0200, Anders Johansson wrote:
> > On Thursday 16 June 2011 14:04:47 Will Stephenson wrote:
> > > 3) What are the big gaps that it doesn't currently do, compared to 
> > > sysvinit?
> > > I hear of things like encrypted LVM volumes not working being dismissed as
> > > unimportant.
> > > I'll start you off with "password agents to do interactive things during
> > > service startup, eg openvpn passwords" (bnc675406):
> > > http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/PasswordAgents
> >
> > read-only /usr mounts I believe were dismissed as unimportant as well
>
> They can't work reliably, and never worked reliably for any non-trivial
> setup. They did not in the recent past, and never will in the future.
> Anybody who still claims that hasn't look into any of the
> non-interesting details of the current reality.
>
> We just require that /usr is mounted from initramfs, when systemd is
> started, nobody cares where /usr comes from or if its writable.
>
> The time where we boot up with only 30% of the system available, start
> stuff referencing /usr and silently fail, but pretending stuff will
> still work, is now over.

What about NFS-mounted /usr? I actually fixed some minor problems
with sysvinitscripts and made sure it worked when it came up last
time on this list that /usr over NFS was "broken".
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Guido Berhoerster
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