On Tue, Feb 11, 2025 at 05:13:35PM +0000, Mark Hindley wrote: > 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.
Which features a key requirement: The root filesystem is read-write. The test is *before* / is remounted read-write, so the only way for that to succeed is if the kernel mounted the root filesystem read-write. I guess this is possible, but certainly now very unusual. -- (\___(\___(\______ --=> 8-) EHM <=-- ______/)___/)___/) \BS ( | ehem+sig...@m5p.com PGP 87145445 | ) / \_CS\ | _____ -O #include <stddisclaimer.h> O- _____ | / _/ 8A19\___\_|_/58D2 7E3D DDF4 7BA6 <-PGP-> 41D1 B375 37D0 8714\_|_/___/5445
