Systemd incompatible with mounted /usr

Posted Mar 3, 2011 23:23 UTC (Thu) by DOT (subscriber, #58786)
In reply to: Systemd incompatible with mounted /usr by AndreE
Parent article: Quotes of the week

Systemd doesn't have to warn in the first place; that's a nice extra. But whatever it says, should be clear. The current message reads like systemd will blow up or silently kidnap your first-born when using a separate /usr. I admit that I was pleasantly surprised to be pointed to an explanation in the README. I also tried to avoid passing judgment. I simply observe that people are understandably ignorant about software they don't have an intimate relationship with. Said ignorant people should obviously not call developers idiots either.

I think I've now managed to piss off all participants in this thread. Sorry about that.

Systemd incompatible with mounted /usr

Posted Mar 3, 2011 23:24 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

That's what I thought, at first. I knew udev has certain limited problems with a separate /usr (no such problems for me: I don't need any of the udev extras that rely on things like the PCI db). But the failure message never mentioned udev at all, so I assumed systemd had *more*, unique problems.

And if there's one thing that I don't like to experiment wildly with, it's init(8).