On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 11:49:38AM -0500, William Hubbs wrote: > On Fri, Aug 05, 2011 at 12:46:04AM +0000, Robin H. Johnson wrote: > > The minimal initramfs would do the following. > > > > 1. Mount devtmpfs/sysfs/procfs as needed to access devices. > > 2. Mount real_root to /newroot > > 3. Read /newroot/etc/initramfs.mount and /newroot/etc/fstab > > 4.1. If /newroot/etc/initramfs.mount does not exist > > Assume it contains only: /usr /var > > 5. Mount the combined items from said files > > Should these be mounted rread-only or just mounted? Also, will > fsck still work if they are mounted? read-only. Yes, this does mean that the fsck code needs some improving, and potentially if it makes changes on a ro-mounted disk, the disk needs to be umounted & remounted, or a reboot needs to happen. Basically what we do for / now needs to extend to the other mountpoints as well.
> I am concerned about /var being included in this because of the > potential of filling up the root partition. Err, I don't follow. How does mounting /var fill up the root partition? > Upstream is only talking about /usr as stated earlier in this thread, > so how are we getting /var involved? See my other notes on stuff in udev rules that require /var before they can complete successfully. -- Robin Hugh Johnson Gentoo Linux: Developer, Trustee & Infrastructure Lead E-Mail : robb...@gentoo.org GnuPG FP : 11AC BA4F 4778 E3F6 E4ED F38E B27B 944E 3488 4E85
