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Author: Didier Kryn
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To: dng
Subject: Re: [DNG] FW: support for merged /usr in Debian
Le 02/01/2016 19:06, Steve Litt a écrit :
> But there's a solution: Initramfs! Cool! Except that initramfs is one
> or two more orders of magnitude more complicated than executable
> splitting. So the slight simplification of merging directories buys you
> a huge complication of initramfs black-boxism.


     Merging directories and initramfs are two different things. You can 
have one with or without the other. The great possibilities offered by 
initramfs have a counterpart: they are more painfull to develop, because 
you need to re-compress the initramfs and reboot for every try.


     The only thing initramfs provides here is /bin and /sbin before 
*any* disk partition is mounted - not only /usr. Note you can as well 
have a /usr in the initramfs (that's what I've done for my embeded 
Powerpcs). I don't know why they want to mount /usr while in initramfs; 
I don't see any advantage.


     Didier