[systemd-devel] How to factory reset?

[Lennart Poettering]

On Wed, 11.03.15 20:56, Kay Sievers (kay at vrfy.org) wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 7:45 PM, Chris Murphy <lists at colorremedies.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 11:50 AM, Kay Sievers <kay at vrfy.org> wrote:
> 
> >> The "all included" kernels are found at /boot/EFI/Linux/*.efi
> >
> > Yeah until the distros stop persistently mounting the ESP, I'm not a
> > fan at all of anything but the most minimalist approach to the ESP.
> 
> Systemd by default mounts it with autofs, it will not be mounted until
> it is accessed, which does not happen during normal operation. We
> currently miss autofs timeout handling, which would umount /boot again
> when it is no longer used. That would make stuff pretty robust, I
> expect.

Quick update on this: autofs expiry is now implemented and enabled for
the ESP mount systemd does by default.

This should shorten the time-frame of corruptions of the ESP quite a
bit.

Lennart

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Lennart Poettering, Red Hat