Author: anonym Date: To: The Tails public development discussion list Subject: Re: [Tails-dev] Please review and merge feature/live-boot-3.x
12/12/12 15:01, intrigeri wrote: > anonym wrote (12 Dec 2012 13:22:49 GMT) :
>>> I am unlikely to have time to test it before the freeze,
>>> so "please review and merge" again if you feel like testing it first.
>>>
>>> Else, I guess this will mature for 0.17.
>
>> I think the latter is the best.
>
> OK. Thanks for thinking of it!
>
>> It's not like we're missing out on some highly necessary
>> features/bugfixes by not doing this, so I don't think it's worth
>> the risk.
>
> I probably have not made it clear enough, but my main motivation for
> pushing this branch in time for 0.16 was Debian bug #688782.
> Quoting Gaudenz:
>
> I'm setting the severity to grave as without these changes the
> persistence filesystems can not be seen from the live system and
> therefore cannot be remounted readonly on shutdown. This leaves
> these filesystem in an inconsistent state which may lead to data
> corruption.
>
> ... but still, I'm unsure this would be worth the risks,
> and I absolutely don't mean to be insisting.
The way I understand it, those patches are only relevant if persistence
is activated in initramfs time. Since we activate it in user space, the
mounts are done on a visible part of the filesystem, so we're safe.
