* maximilian attems [Sam Apr 09, 2011 at 09:55:57 +0200]: > On Wed, 06 Apr 2011, Joey Hess wrote: > > I recently suffered 2 weeks of downtime of a machine in a location that > > made fixing it hard, caused by a broken initramfs due to bug #621137. > > This highlighted to me that there are many things that can go wrong and > > break an initramfs when it is refreshed, not just when upgrading to a > > new kernel. And yet backup initramfses are not kept by default, except > > for ones that accompany old kernel versions. > it was an Ubuntu merge, as initramfs-tools initramfs were considered > stable, one could think to have this set for sid/testing until freeze. > > Space should not be a concern, since /boot is always provisioned with > > space for multiple kernel and initramfs pairs. So I feel that setting > > backup_initramfs=yes would be better than the current default, > > leading to more robust and recoverable systems. Thank you. > the -ENOSPC error accounts for 50% of the Ubuntu bugs. > I do agree that it is not an initramfs-tools bug per se, > but of the invovled apt that do not cleanup a huge number > of linux-images that heppen due to their easy ABI bump. > Nevertheless due to the triggering the error happens very > late and kills the box. > (Not even starting to account for seperate /boot partitions) maximilian, how do we proceed with this issue? regards, -mika-
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