On Tue, Feb 11, 2025 at 08:21:48AM -0800, Elliott Mitchell wrote: > On Tue, Feb 11, 2025 at 03:22:08PM +0000, Mark Hindley wrote: > > > > On Sun, Apr 03, 2022 at 04:23:49PM -0700, Elliott Mitchell wrote: > > > Package: initscripts > > > Version: 3.02-1 > > > > > > Often /run is mounted with the "nodev" option, at which point doing a > > > `mknod` "/run/rootdev", then trying to `fsck` that doesn't work as a > > > fallback. Perhaps "/dev/fsckfallbackdev"? > > > > In the abstract this might be true. But this is used in checkroot.sh which > > is > > run *before* /run is mounted. And /run/rootdev is already a last-chance > > fallback > > after root from /etc/fstab and /dev/root have been tried and failed. > > > > So I don't see a problem here. Or am I misunderstanding you or missing > > something? > > Is it worth having a last-chance fallback which is guaranteed to fail?
But I think (I may be wrong?) that this last-chance fallback will not fail. Remember this is in checkroot.sh which is run *before* /run is mounted in mountall.sh (without nodev; see comment). So it is either just a directory in / or what an initramfs might have setup. Mark
