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On 2020-08-06 21:50, Jaco Kroon wrote: |
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> Can you detect in the runscript that this will trigger and issue a cold |
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> reboot instead if this would trigger? |
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> Having never used kexec before ... I may well be missing the point. But |
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> I'd rather have the system issue a cold reboot if kexec (which sounds |
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> really cool in principle) stands any chance of failing. |
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It's software. Of course you can do everything you can do in POSIX shell |
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script :) |
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But I doubt that something like this is practicable -- we also should |
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avoid overengineering. |
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Like I was thinking by myself if we should teach kexec runscript to |
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return persistent name instead (utilizing lsblk for example) but this |
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will raises question like what to do if tools aren't available and maybe |
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user's start environment can't even handle root=UUID=... value :/ |
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Regards, |
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Thomas Deutschmann / Gentoo Linux Developer |
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