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From: Patrick McLean <chutzpah@g.o>
To: William Hubbs <williamh@g.o>
Cc: gentoo development <gentoo-dev@l.g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: removing mount-ro from OpenRC
Date: Fri, 02 Oct 2015 23:13:09
Message-Id: 20151002161242.2bd70f8a@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] rfc: removing mount-ro from OpenRC by William Hubbs
1 On Fri, 2 Oct 2015 16:59:06 -0500
2 William Hubbs <williamh@g.o> wrote:
3 >
4 > Does anyone know why we need this init script (it is Linux only), or
5 > why we can't remove it?
6 >
7 This script is there to make sure as much effort as possible has been
8 done to prevent file system corruption before rebooting/powering off.
9 For the file systems that are in use (such as /) they cannot be
10 unmounted at shutdown time, so this script remounts them read only so
11 they will be in a clean when the machine reboots/powers off.