[Kernel-packages] [Bug 41624] Re: Replaying journals of other OS's filesystems, by mounting them, is unsafe

2024-01-17 Thread Glenn Washburn
** Merge proposal linked: https://code.launchpad.net/~crass/casper/+git/casper/+merge/453083 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to linux in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/41624 Title: Replaying journals of other OS

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 41624] Re: Replaying journals of other OS's filesystems, by mounting them, is unsafe

2023-10-04 Thread Glenn Washburn
Over a decade later... but this might help someone. There is a way around this mess, with some caveats. You can set the block device to readonly using blockdev. This works as desired a lot of the time. However, sometimes (or perhaps everytime certain filesystems need to replay the journal), the wil

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1938104] Re: shiftfs module is not built because CONFIG_SHIFT_FS is not set

2021-12-03 Thread Glenn Washburn
Why is this invalid? I presume because there's the idmapped mounts feature. The problem is that this doesn't work in 5.13 when BTRFS is the underlying filesystem. So shiftfs is still useful. Its turned on in master build[1], why not for OEM, which is the only 5.13 available for focal? Here's a dis

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1876990] Re: zfs modules in Focal kernel taint kernel

2021-09-01 Thread Glenn Washburn
I'm running into this as well. I'd like to boot the Live CD such that the kernel is untainted, but since the zfs modules are automatically loaded, the kernel is tainted at boot. I was able to ensure that the zfs modules were not loaded at boot by adding the kernel parameter "systemd.mask=zfs.targe

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1942260] [NEW] compress firmware in /lib/firmware

2021-08-31 Thread Glenn Washburn
Public bug reported: Some facts: - The linux kernel has supported loading xz compressed firmware since 5.3 - The size of /lib/firmware in impish is ~650Mb (and growing) - The compressed size of firmware could be ~230Mb It would be nice to install compressed firmware to save space. Here are th