Linda Walsh wrote:
Cristian RodrC-guez wrote:
On 24/11/11 22:37, Carlos E. R. wrote:
How will this affect me?
As AJ previously said, since 12.1 /usr is mounted very early by the initial ram disk, this change will only get rid of the artificial separation of tools between /bin /sbin ... and /usr
The whole purpose of having /bin and /sbin, was to have a set of tools that 1) were statically linked, 2) could run in a low-resource/low OS-functionality state 3) Allow for some minimal set of files to be load in order to bring up a shell so any problems in booting could be resolved. (don't think all of the above are true anymore...but...)
^^^^ (I've used that when my /usr partition went belly up.
From current experience of my staff: that is not sufficient. If we want boot-problem-resolving tools to be available, we have to put them in initrd. That's the only way to be sure they will be available if GRUB/lilo succeeds booting.
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