[systemd-devel] Question about systemd-firstboot

[Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek]

On Thu, Mar 09, 2017 at 05:31:46PM +0100, Francis Moreau wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 9, 2017 at 5:19 PM, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
> <zbyszek at in.waw.pl> wrote:
> > It depends on the command-line parameters: 'ro' and 'rw' both work.
> > 'rw' is actually recommended if you're using an initramfs.
> who is recommending 'rw' ?
That's how I remember the result of the discussions on systemd-devel
when we were trying to get systemd-fsck to work properly on all
combinations of ro/rw and fs type. I don't think there's any official
recommendation, just the general agreement that fsck is done better
in the initramfs (if at all needed, since most filesystems don't
really need it), and then there's no point in having the root temporarilly
read-only in the real system.

> > Otherwise, an empty /etc/machine-id may be present, if /etc is read-only
> > at boot, in which case systemd will do a temporary mount.
> >
> > So 'ro' is supported, but you either need an /etc/machine-id file or
> > a place to mount one temporarily.
> 
> So if 'ro' is used, systemd-firstboot is not working. If it's expected
> I think it would worth a note in the documentation.
It's supposed to work, I think. Please open an issue, it'll be better
tracked there.

Zbyszek

> On my setup, neither 'rw' nor 'ro' is passed so I assume 'ro' is the default.