On Thu, 2014-10-02 at 22:26 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Thu, 2014-10-02 at 18:39 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > On Mon, 2014-09-29 at 01:44 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > > Currently initscripts will not work correctly if /usr is mounted by > > > initramfs-tools. Firstly, fsck will fail and the boot process will > > > stop. If you press Ctrl-D to continue, the boot process will succeed > > > but /usr will not be remounted read-write if necessary. > > [...] > > > > Also, we must not run fsck in the initramfs because the system clock may > > not be correct yet; see #763777. > > > > Unfortunately, systemd does not fsck /usr if it's already mounted. > > Which means this is now broken for all init systems! > > It looks like we can sort out the system time just by adding hwclock and > some config files into the initramfs. hwclock already hooks into udev, > and the kernel ensures that the adjustment of system time to a local > time zone is done only once. So please assume that the initramfs will > continue to fsck /usr.
Currently this works fine with systemd, but util-linux will need a small
patch to avoid double-adjusting the clock when booting with
sysvinit/initscripts.
Ben.
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Ben Hutchings
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
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