On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 8:33 PM, Ralf Corsepius <rc040203@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > The "emergency scenario" (/usr not being available) does not work with > Fedora and probably all RH-based distros, because there are packages in > /bin/* /sbin/*, which are dynamically linked against libraries in /usr/lib*. When you said "using a separate /usr partition has never worked", some (reasonably?) thought you meant it's not even possible to have /usr on a separate partition. What you did mean, apparently, was that those binaries (and only those binaries) in /bin and /sbin which dynamically link to libs in /usr/lib won't work. But I don't understand why, in response to Michal's observation "libpci is in /usr for a long time and there was not any complain so far", you responded "[y]ou've never seen such a complaint because using a separate /usr partition has never worked on RH-based distros." The reason I don't understand is that as long as you have a shell that doesn't link to libs in /usr, you'll have a working command line. When you try to figure out why /usr didn't mount, you might try to use lspci, find libpci is unavailable, and then say "dang." The fact that nobody has complained may mean it's not a show stopper (e.g. use dmesg), but it's not a "hen-and-egg" problem, in my opinion. -David -- David Eisner http://cradle.brokenglass.com -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
