On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 2:18 PM, clemens fischer <ino-news@spotteswoode.dnsalias.org> wrote:
Thomas Bächler wrote:
No. Even if things fail entirely, we will provide a hook for mkinitcpio that mounts /usr before switching to the real root filesystem. This will eliminate all your potential bugs. However - this hook hasn't been written yet.
Imagine somebody with a desktop arch-linux. For some reason his system "fails entirely". Should he or she now mess with a live-CD to backport the yet unwritten hook once it is finished and doodle on his thumbs waiting for it? Reinstall everything?
Clarifying again: nothing is more broken now than it used to be, and no one are forced to do anything. We are just now pointing out that things _are_ broken, so people should beware. -t