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Bug#795833: initramfs-tools: add mountroot failure support to allow meaningful messages and recovery attempts



On Wed, 2015-12-09 at 16:05 +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Mon, 17 Aug 2015 10:52:14 +0100 Andy Whitcroft <apw@ubuntu.com> wrote:
> > Package: initramfs-tools
> > Version: 0.120
> > Severity: normal
> >  
> > Allow hooks to supply specific root mount failure handlers.  These can
> > both report more specific failure reasons, and in some cases may even be
> > able to attempt recovery.  This is useful for more complex scenarios
> > such as LVM and mdadm setups.
> >  
> > We use this in Ubuntu to allow augmented lvm2 and mdadm hooks to recover
> > failed raids and the like.
> >  
> > NOTE: that the splash handling here may well be Ubuntu specific.
> 
> Thanks for your patch.
> 
> Can you explain why this was implemented by extending existing scripts
> rather than by adding a new phase (possibly with stamp files to control
> what they do)?
[...]

I do need some justification of this change.

Also, could we have a meeting (IRC or irl) at some point about the
remaining differences between the Debian/upstream and Ubuntu packages,
and how to resolve them?

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Klipstein's 4th Law of Prototyping and Production:
                                    A fail-safe circuit will destroy others.

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