On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 12:57 PM, clemens fischer <ino-news@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Thomas Bächler wrote: > >> Am 25.10.2011 20:12, schrieb clemens fischer: >> >>>> 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? >> >> I'll let you go back and read everything again, what you are saying >> makes no sense whatsoever, and I have no idea how to reply to it. > > Lucky you, I have a way to explain it: There are udev rules referencing > stuff in /usr. If people mount /usr by-label or by-uuid, udev must have > completed to setup those symlinks. Catch-22. If you want to understand this I suggest you look at the udev hook in initramfs. There is no problem. -t
