Package: bilibop-lockfs
Version: 0.5.5
Severity: important
Tags: upstream

A user reported me that:

> After installing the package and configuring the wanted behavior over
> the configuration file I have restarted my system but it ran into a
> mount error.
> My analysis revealed that one of my filesystems couldn't be mounted
> because of the fact that the underlying tmpfs filesystem has been
> mounted read-only and so the needed subdirectories ro,rw and.rw
> couldn't be created to mount the different branches. The reason why
> the tmpfs filesystem has been mounted read-only was the fact that the
> original filesystem was marked as read-only in the fstab either.
> So I have looked into the mount-helper script and I have noticed that
> you apply the mount options of the original filesystem to the writable
> branch and so you apply the read-only option either but this prevents
> the creation of the needed subdirectories.

This is reproducible. A 'ro' mount option in fstab that is applied
without error when bilibop-lockfs is disabled, breaks the boot sequence
(to recovery mode) when bilibop-lockfs is enabled.


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