[Re-sending with cc to the bug.] On Sun, 2013-09-08 at 21:44 +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: > On Sun, Sep 08, 2013 at 09:04:01PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > Package: initscripts > > Version: 2.88dsf-43 > > Severity: normal > > > > The pstore pseudo-filesystem provides access to persistent storage > > outside the regular filesystems that the kernel uses for, primarily, > > crash logs. On EFI systems this is implemented on top of EFI > > variables, but there are other backends for pSeries NVRAM, the ACPI > > ERST facility and reserved RAM. > > > > For the linux-image-* bug script I want to be able to read crash logs > > from pstore, but currently I can't do this because it isn't mounted by > > default. (I was thinking of implementing a fallback to the sysfs > > efivars interface, but this is only readable by root.) > > > > Please mount pstore on /sys/fs/pstore if this directory exists at > > boot time. > > This can certainly be added to mountkernfs. > > Are there any particular mount options needed/recommended?
It has no options of its own. It should only contain regular files, so could be mounted nosuid,noexec,nodev as systemd does (from version 198). But I don't really see the point of that. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings I haven't lost my mind; it's backed up on tape somewhere.
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