On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 6:31 PM, Thomas Bächler <thomas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Am 25.10.2011 17:51, schrieb Tom Gundersen: >> This is what I had in mind: >> <https://github.com/teg/mkinitcpio/commit/76dacf8b9de9cc0409741840b1d8e449862fc846>. > > Just two problems: Good points. > 1) You overmount the initramfs' /usr for a short time. Nobody knows what > that might lead to. 1) This was a bit of a hack, need to look into doing it right (mounting with a "prefix"). > 2) You mount /usr in read-write mode, this will conflict with fsck. 2) We should probably fsck bouth /usr and / before mounting them in the initramfs (doesn't really make sense to boot from a potentially broken disk, only to fsck it afterwards with a fsck binary stored on the disk itself...). Otherwise, we could just mount /usr ro and remount rw in rc.sysinit. -t
