[systemd-devel] systemd-fsck-root semantics

[Leonid Isaev]

On Wed, Jul 02, 2014 at 12:33:01PM -0600, Chris Murphy wrote:
> 
> On Jul 2, 2014, at 5:39 AM, Daniel Drake <drake at endlessm.com> wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I'm trying to understand dracut/systemd fsck behaviour, in the context
> > of an ext4 filesystem root mounted read-only from dracut, remaining
> > read-only even when the system is fully booted (kiosk-style).
> > 
> > I see that systemd's fstab-generator rightly creates a mount unit for
> > /sysroot from the initramfs, and causes e2fsck to be run on it from
> > inside the dracut initramfs, before it is mounted. So far so good.
> 
> It's not wrong, but it seems unnecessary to fsck an ro file system. How is it becoming inconsistent if it's read only?
> 

You still need to remount / rw for administration tasks or updates.

Cheers,
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Leonid Isaev
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