On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 11:55 AM, Harald Hoyer <[email protected]> wrote: > On 07/10/2013 05:26 PM, Colin Walters wrote: >> The gnome-ostree build system generates disk images that can be >> downloaded directly; there is no installer. >> >> In the old model of "dracut shell script + systemd", systemd's main.c >> has: >> if (arg_running_as == SYSTEMD_SYSTEM ...) { >> ... >> machine_id_setup(); >> ... >> } >> >> So after mounting the rootfs, we'd end up writing one to /etc (at least >> in gnome-ostree which comes with a writable copy of /etc), and it would >> persist across reboots, and all would be well with the world. >> >> In the new systemd-in-initramfs model, journald is now launched in the >> initramfs. Dracut will copy the host's machine id into the initramfs >> if it exists, but in the gnome-ostree case (or more generally >> "pre-canned OS" case), there isn't one. journald will attempt to start, >> and fail. >> >> One thought I had is to say: If there's no /etc/machine-id in the >> initramfs, write one to /run/machine-id. After mounting the rootfs, >> persist that to /etc. > > Err, if there is no machine-id in the initramfs, systemd and journald should > do > just fine. > > It was this way in F18, F17.
Didn't it always need an empty file to over-mount it with a temporary and randomly created one? Kay _______________________________________________ systemd-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
