On Tue, Nov 14, 2017 at 03:07:09PM +0100, John Hughes wrote:
> On 14/11/17 12:53, Rowland Penny wrote:
> >On Tue, 14 Nov 2017 12:40:02 +0100
> >John Hughes <john@???> wrote:
> >
> >>Why do you keep claiming the /usr problem is something to do with
> >>systemd?
> >Probably because it does, it wasn't really a problem until systemd came
> >along and couldn't seem to fix it.
> >
>
> systemd has no problem with /usr being on a different filesystem *if the
> filesystem is mounted before systemd starts*.
>
> Making sure /usr was mounted before It was needed *was* really a problem
> before systemd was invented, which is why various UNIX systems started using
> a merged /usr in the 1990's.

But we're talking about Linux here, where it wasn't a big problem.

-- hendrik