Do you mean opt/tce on the cd root? That's never worked, or supposed to.
Yes, what you see is expected behavior.
It's bad
I have an USB stick with TC 2.11 installed; there is a /tce dir with cca. 100M extensions (LXDE, FileZilla, Firefox, WICD, etc.) What happens during boot?
- TC is loaded (less than 10M) and starts
- extensions in /tce mounted
- saved data (few megs) loaded from /tce
This is really fast and there is the option to control mounting or loading to RAM extensions via the config files. This works great.
If I want to create a remastered TC which has these extensions built-in, the only way is to put them to /opt/tce in the initrd file. Resulted initrd is 10x larger now and it has to be fully loaded before anything can be done. Result is a really slow boot, system takes nearly 10 times compared to the same non-remastered system. Practically it is useless.
Desired way of operation would be to look for /opt/tce or any other directory with special signature on a similar way as /tce is found and process this directory as /tce. Much better just to check it on the partition used for booting. With this, remastered version would boot as fast as non-remastered with the benefit of easy remastering.