Quoting Ben Hutchings (2019-02-27 19:37:41) > Control: severity -1 wishlist > Control: retitle -1 Add option to override filesystem type detection > > On Wed, 2019-02-27 at 18:38 +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > Quoting Jonas Smedegaard (2019-02-27 17:45:33) > > > Building a system image using multistrap, > > > including generating an initial ramdisk, > > > worked fine recently. > > > > > > Now it fails with this error message: > > > > > > W: Couldn't identify type of root file system for fsck hook > > > > > > It seems to me that git commit a8ed874 intended to extend the code > > > operating on "auto" mounted filesystems to cover all _except_ root > > > disk, but that the logic is flipped around so that now it _only_ > > > extends that to include root disk: > > This commit went into version 0.123, before stretch, so if your use > case "worked fine recently" then this is not the change that broke it.
Heh. I even looked briefly at the date thinking "hmm, committed in January, not February when released was made, but oh well...", and noticed that corresponding bug#767471 had a quite low number... :-) > > Please ignore my guess above: I think I understand now that it was > > intentional to check root disk (I got confused by the comment > > talking about ignoring root and then processing root not skipping > > it). > > > > Let me clarify my use case: I generate a system image on a fast > > amd64 system targeted a slower real device (that's the reason having > > initramfs generated is important). > > > > fstab now unconditionally being distrusted for root disk makes it > > more difficult to build on a different host than intended for target > > boot. > > > > Would it perhaps make sense to support passing pre-resolved root > > filesystem fstype as an environment variable, taking precedence over > > probing? > > I don't think this should be an environment variable but it does seem > like a useful option. Thanks for considering. - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
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