Am Sun, 21 Aug 2016 02:19:33 +0000 (UTC) schrieb Duncan <1i5t5.dun...@cox.net>:
> Chris Murphy posted on Sat, 20 Aug 2016 18:36:21 -0600 as excerpted: > > > FAT leaves a lot to be desired but it's pretty universally > > supported and almost trivial to repair *if* the volume is > > repairable in the first place. The much bigger issue with ESP on > > Linux is this neurotic tendency of distros to persistently mount > > shit that does not need to be mounted. Like the ESP, and even the > > dedicated boot volume. They only need to be mounted when being > > updated and then should be umounted. And worse the convention is to > > do nested mount with /boot and then /boot/efi for the ESP so it's > > twice as bad a practice. By virtue of mounting the ESP the dirty > > bit is set, so any crash means it must be fsck'd and if that > > doesn't work, it's game over for that volume. Fragile setup. > > Depends on the distro. On gentoo, you set it up the way you want of > course, but the recommendation has always been /boot, and now the > ESP, not mounted by default. > > But that would be /expected/ on gentoo, since being able to configure > it the way you want is the whole /point/ of running gentoo in the > first place. Sort of like arch, only much more so. systemd systems (I'm booting Gentoo with systemd) should auto-mount ESP to /boot on access, and auto-unmount after a short timeout. So the solution to this problem is already wired into systemd if you use (a) proper GPT setup (with correct GUIDs) and (b) do not mention /boot in fstab. -- Regards, Kai Replies to list-only preferred. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
