also sprach Mario 'BitKoenig' Holbe <mario.ho...@tu-ilmenau.de> [2011.01.31.1636 +0100]: > How can halt, kexec or reboot? ;)
All of these get loaded to RAM before init(8) starts the shutdown process. > Of course you know umountroot doesn't (yet) really umount the root > filesystem. Fact is that it's not possible to stop all RAID arrays (see the FAQ) while they are being used, even by a read-only rootfs, unless … > 2. umountroot once establishing a way to really umount root (like > installing a stopramfs or something like that). Yes, this would be the logical way. However, I doubt there will be enough motivation to work on this, because … > 1. md once allowing setting read-only when the upper layer > restricts itself to read-only. at least for mdadm, the kernel synchronises the superblocks just before reboot, so that the shutdown process is ugly, but no data is endangered. Cheers, -- .''`. martin f. krafft <madduck@d.o> Related projects: : :' : proud Debian developer http://debiansystem.info `. `'` http://people.debian.org/~madduck http://vcs-pkg.org `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing systems "the problem with america is stupidity. i'm not saying there should be a capital punishment for stupidity, but why don't we just take the safety labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself?" -- seen on irc
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