On Tue, Feb 11, 2025 at 03:22:08PM +0000, Mark Hindley wrote: > > On Sun, Apr 03, 2022 at 04:23:49PM -0700, Elliott Mitchell wrote: > > Package: initscripts > > Version: 3.02-1 > > > > Often /run is mounted with the "nodev" option, at which point doing a > > `mknod` "/run/rootdev", then trying to `fsck` that doesn't work as a > > fallback. Perhaps "/dev/fsckfallbackdev"? > > In the abstract this might be true. But this is used in checkroot.sh which is > run *before* /run is mounted. And /run/rootdev is already a last-chance > fallback > after root from /etc/fstab and /dev/root have been tried and failed. > > So I don't see a problem here. Or am I misunderstanding you or missing > something?
Is it worth having a last-chance fallback which is guaranteed to fail? IF the scripts get to that point, will there be more than a .01% chance of the `mknod` being successful? The odds of that portion leading to a successful recovery seem too low, perhaps things might would be more reliable to fail sooner? -- (\___(\___(\______ --=> 8-) EHM <=-- ______/)___/)___/) \BS ( | ehem+sig...@m5p.com PGP 87145445 | ) / \_CS\ | _____ -O #include <stddisclaimer.h> O- _____ | / _/ 8A19\___\_|_/58D2 7E3D DDF4 7BA6 <-PGP-> 41D1 B375 37D0 8714\_|_/___/5445
