• mvirts@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Idk why I feel compelled to add this info, but / doesn’t have to be local as long as the necessary kernel modules for mounting it are available in the initrd or built into the kernel.

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      3 months ago

      Yes, that is true. I was speaking in the context of very early Unix/Linux before initrd was a thing.