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Bug#848181: initramfs-tools-core: support mounting of more complex setups

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On Thu, 2016-12-15 at 20:15 +0100, Tobias Schlemmer wrote:
> Hi Ben,
> 
> Am 14.12.2016 um 23:51 schrieb Ben Hutchings:
> > Control: tag -1 wontfix
> > 
> > This code is broken in several ways,
> 
> For me it would be interesting to know about them. So I could improve my
> skills.

For one, it has dependencies on scripts in /root on the root
filesystem.

[...]
> Otherwise I expect that there will be many more bug reports and
> complaints about initramfs in particular, Debian at medium level and the
> unpredictability of Linux configuration in the future.

There has been one other bug report so far (#781656).  The lack of
support for bind-mounting /usr (which I hadn't previously considered)
was then documented in initramfs-tools NEWS and the release notes for
jessie.

> I think the 2nd approach will be the easiest to implement: replace
> “mountfs /usr“ by “for fs in $EARLYMOUNTFS ; do mountfs "$fs"; done“ but
> it may still lead to confusion while upgrading Debian. I'm using Debian
> for more than 15 years, now, and, until recently, I had never a major
> Debian release that rendered my system unbootable. People don't expect that.

I'm sorry, but you can't claim you weren't warned about this.

The answer is still no.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice
versa.

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Bug#848181: initramfs-tools-core: support mounting of more complex setups Tobias Schlemmer <keinstein@users.sf.net> - 2016-12-14 23:10 +0100
  Bug#848181: initramfs-tools-core: support mounting of more complex setups Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> - 2016-12-15 00:00 +0100
    Bug#848181: initramfs-tools-core: support mounting of more complex setups Tobias Schlemmer <keinstein_junior@gmx.net> - 2016-12-15 20:30 +0100
      Bug#848181: initramfs-tools-core: support mounting of more complex setups Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> - 2016-12-15 21:10 +0100
        Bug#848181: initramfs-tools-core: support mounting of more complex setups Tobias Schlemmer <keinstein_junior@gmx.net> - 2016-12-17 02:10 +0100
          Bug#848181: initramfs-tools-core: support mounting of more complex setups Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> - 2016-12-17 03:40 +0100
  Processed: Re: Bug#848181: initramfs-tools-core: support mounting  of more complex setups owner@bugs.debian.org (Debian Bug Tracking System) - 2016-12-15 00:00 +0100

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