As you probably are aware, only part of my work on sysvinit made it into Etch. I am still not sure if I should request an exception from the release team to get an updated version into Etch or not. On one hand, I would like to have some features in Etch, and on the other hand, there are some unsolved issues left. These features should be included in Etch:
- Mounting /lib/init/rw/ as tmpfs. Solve libnss-ldap issue, as well as make several things easier during the early boot. - /dev/shm/ should be mounted without noexec for Etch, to avoid problem with user-mode-linux, dosemu and others. - Fix for bug in single user detection code for bootlogd. - Incorrect error reported from mountnfs.sh and rc.local with VERBOSE is set. There are other fixes included after -20 as well. The remaining important issues I am aware of are - NFS mounting might fail if ifup -a take up several network interfaces, and first interface is insufficient to mount NFS partitions. This is related to moving nfs mounting into if-up.d/ and trigger mounting when interfaces are enabled. (#393532) - fuser might kill the wrong processes during shutdown with there are a lot of bind mounted virtual file systems. (#391375) - Booting will fail on machines with NFS-mounted / when using ifup to re-enable the network and activate NFS mounts, and NFS mounts of non-root file systems will not appear if ifup isn't used. This might actually be a problem in ifupdown taking down eth0 before reconfiguring it. (#388761) I'm not sure how to properly solve these while also solving the problem the change was intended to solve. An option might be to revert the NFS-related changes and reintroduce them after Etch is released. I already reverted the /dev/shm/ mount option changes for similar reasons. Opinions? I am currently very busy preparing the free software prize here in Norway, so it would be great with help to work on these issues. Friendly, -- Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
