On Wed, 06 Apr 2011, Joey Hess wrote: > I recently suffered 2 weeks of downtime of a machine in a location that > made fixing it hard, caused by a broken initramfs due to bug #621137. > This highlighted to me that there are many things that can go wrong and > break an initramfs when it is refreshed, not just when upgrading to a > new kernel. And yet backup initramfses are not kept by default, except > for ones that accompany old kernel versions.
it was an Ubuntu merge, as initramfs-tools initramfs were considered stable, one could think to have this set for sid/testing until freeze. > Space should not be a concern, since /boot is always provisioned with > space for multiple kernel and initramfs pairs. So I feel that setting > backup_initramfs=yes would be better than the current default, > leading to more robust and recoverable systems. Thank you. the -ENOSPC error accounts for 50% of the Ubuntu bugs. I do agree that it is not an initramfs-tools bug per se, but of the invovled apt that do not cleanup a huge number of linux-images that heppen due to their easy ABI bump. Nevertheless due to the triggering the error happens very late and kills the box. (Not even starting to account for seperate /boot partitions) -- maks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110409195557.ga11...@stro.at
