Hello Michael,
please send a patch against debian-old-2.0 branch of live-boot, thanks.
Patch against debian-old-1.0 (couldn't find debian-old-2.0 in
public live-boot, though shouldn't be a difference):
http://grml.org/patches/0001-workaround-aufs-issue-in-kernel-versions-around-2.6..patch
-mika-
I have a similar problem (/var/lib/fai doesn't exist in the aufs system)
with a squeeze nfsroot built from fai 3.3.5 experimental (Lenny), and
the patch does not fit in live-initramfs 2.0.0-1 that is installed in
the nfsroot, as there is no script 05mountpoints.
I have tried to insert your patch in live-bottom/08persistence_excludes,
as you can see below, but it doesn't work. Do you have an idea of what I
could do to make it work?
--
Nicolas
--- 08persistence_excludes.~1~ 2010-08-10 01:51:40.000000000 +0200
+++ 08persistence_excludes 2010-08-30 11:30:21.000000000 +0200
@@ -72,6 +72,13 @@
# Bind mount it to origin
mount -o bind "${PERSTMP}/${dir}" "/root/${dir}"
+
+ # aufs2 in kernel versions around 2.6.33 has a regression:
+ # directories can't be accessed when read for the first the time,
+ # causing a failure for example when accessing /var/lib/fai
+ # when booting FAI, this simple workaround solves it
+ ls /root/* >/dev/null 2>&1
+
done
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