On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 11:28:28AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 05:07:39PM +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: > > - we can't fsck /usr when mounted, so this needs doing in the > > initramfs (/ and /usr are fscked, with the appropriate > > helpers copied into the initramfs) > > I think this is a bug in e2fsprogs for treating / specially wrt fsck after > mount. We should fix this in e2fsprogs, not work around it by changing the > semantics of fsck-at-boot.
I certainly support this point of view. However, the scope of the required changes isn't immediately clear to me. We might potentially need to patch every single fsck program; e2fsck is sort-of patchable but Ted wasn't happy with the idea. And worse, we have to deal with btrfs, which currently isn't fsckable if mounted *at all*, let alone read-only /. While I live in the hope that one day btrfs will be sane, I won't be holding my breath. Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' schroot and sbuild http://alioth.debian.org/projects/buildd-tools `- GPG Public Key F33D 281D 470A B443 6756 147C 07B3 C8BC 4083 E800 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130716191053.gg4...@codelibre.net
