Re: problem with degraded boot and systemd

[Chris Murphy <lists@colorremedies.com>]

On May 20, 2014, at 6:03 PM, Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net> wrote:
> 
> 
> I'd actually argue that's functioning as it should, since I see forced 
> manual intervention in ordered to mount degraded as a FEATURE, NOT A BUG.

Manual intervention is OK for now, when it takes the form of dropping to a dracut shell, and only requires the user to pass mount -o degraded. To mount degraded automatically is worse because within a notification API for user space, it will lead users to make bad choices resulting in data loss.

But the needed sequence is fairly burdensome: force shutdown, boot again, use rd.break=premount, then use mount -o degraded, and then exit a couple of times.


> [1] dracut: I use it here on gentoo as well, because my rootfs is a multi-
> device btrfs and a kernel rootflags=device= line won't parse correctly, 
> apparently due to splitting at the wrong =, so I must use an initr* 
> despite my preference for a direct initr*-less boot, and I use dracut to 
> generate it.

rootflags doesn't take a device argument, it only applies to the volume to be mounted at /sysroot, so only one = is needed.


Chris Murphy