Thomas Bächler wrote: > Am 25.10.2011 14:12, schrieb clemens fischer: >>> We are currently working on adding support for the second approach, >>> but we are not there yet (I have some patches against mkinitcpio to >>> add this, but they rely on a patch by Thomas against busybox that has >>> not yet landed upstream). >> >> What patch would that be? THE-FAVOURITE-SEARCH-ENGINE didn't pull >> anything useful for "patch Thomas-Bächler busybox". Can somebody point >> us to the relevant code, please? > > I am not sure which patch he means. I wrote something recently, but I > only shared that with Tom in private conversations and it is not related > to this issue. > >> A hook to mount the users /usr would presumably go right before >> >> "if [ -x /lib/udev/udevd ]; then" >> >> in "/lib/initcpio/init"? >> >> Are the symlinks in "/dev/disk/by-label/" by then? I guess not, since >> udevd rules are responsible for setting them up, right? > > Mounting /usr needs to go to the initramfs. It is possible to implement > a mount handler for this. At this stage, the by-label symlinks exist > already. AFAIU udevd(8) is responsible for setting up those symlinks. How can they exist _before_ udevd(8) is started? clemens
