Re: [gentoo-dev] busybox[sep-usr] support for mounting /usr w/out hassle

[Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>]

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On Tuesday 01 May 2012 11:06:42 William Hubbs wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 11:59:02AM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > the fact that the script leaves your system in a hard to recover state is
> > what i'm whining about, not that udev requires devtmpfs.
> 
> So why did you decide to whine instead of opening a bug? :p

based on past behavior, i assumed it was operating as indented

> > we already have examples of the init scripts modifying /etc/issue to
> > notify login entry points that their system needs manual attention to
> > recover.
> 
> This part can't happen in the udev init script since / is ro when it is
> run. Doing something in udev-postmount is also eroneous because that
> assumes that the user is booting to the default runlevel which they may
> not be.

in the past, we would `mount -o remount,rw /`, but that was because we needed 
to add missing dirs in /.
-mike

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