[OE-core] [PATCH 2/2] tzdata: install /etc/localtime alongside /etc/timezone

[Burton, Ross]

On 29 August 2012 23:22, Phil Blundell <philb at gnu.org> wrote:
> On Wed, 2012-08-29 at 22:50 +0100, Burton, Ross wrote:
>> I'm curious if the people who want / and /usr on separate partitions
>> that Phil refers to are a hypothetical group of people, or people who
>> can chime in with their opinion.
>
> As far as I know, only Intel have ever expressed any real interest in
> having this feature work.  My recollection is that there are some
> supposed "carrier grade" systems where this is, for whatever reason, a
> requirement.  There's been some previous discussion on the list, see for
> example:

The interesting mail in that thread is
http://lists.linuxtogo.org/pipermail/openembedded-core/2012-February/017373.html,
where Mark Hatle from Wind River not Intel (yeah, okay...) cites
carrier grade blade systems.  Then again I've had a few years away
from OE, and I've no idea what the "micro" system referred to in later
mails is.

Considering the modern oe-core boot rapidly reaches udev and thus can
silently break in subtle way with /usr unmounted, I'm not entirely
happy with claiming to support separate partitions unless you define
support as just "gets to a shell".

Ross