On Fri, 12 Jan 2018 03:56:42 +0100 Adam Borowski <kilob...@angband.pl> wrote: > On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 08:38:39PM +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > > Please tell me why this would be serious: any filesystem from this millenium > > > can handle unclean shutdown fine -- especially if there's a sync before > > > reboot/poweroff. > > > > That's hardly an argument. There is still very much the possibility that > > this bug causes data-loss, so the severity is definitely justified. > > Technically, yes. If your filesystem is ext2, and there's a process that > hasn't been killed, and continues to write after the final sync. > > But if you use ext2 for anything, you made the decision yourself. >
Not necessarily, an admin could just have to use ext2 for internal company policy reasons. Let's not punish people for being stuck in a bad situation. /usr is already mounted ro. Can we not remount other filesystems ro like /var at the same time? > > On the other hand, only a very small minority are still using sysvinit on > > Debian, so this I think it's ok to have the severity set to serious. > > According to my last data, 14% of unstable users; less on stable as those > tend to be non-technical users. Not a "very small minority". Ignore him. He trolls non-systemd inits and actively roots for their exit from Debian. Regards, -- Cameron nemo
