[systemd-devel] /etc/machine-id handling in a non-initrd / embedded environment ?!?!

[Kay Sievers]

On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 3:41 PM, Kay Sievers <kay at vrfy.org> wrote:
> Yes, you can mount the root block device to a different place a second
> time, and should be able to unlink the file and replace it, then
> umount the file on the real /, and all should be atomic.

Nah, sorry, it probably fails with being busy when it's over-mounted.
We would need to invent some other way to do this trickery when the
system is already up and running.

Kay