On 7/2/20 3:10 PM, Christopher Engelhard wrote:
On 02.07.20 17:53, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote:
> It would be great if we could fairly reliably boot with a read-only
> root file system, all the way to the graphical environment. Obviously,
> such a machine will not be fully functional, but for users, debugging a
> disk problem when they have the normal environment with windows,
> tabbed terminals, graphical editors, and internet is vastly easier.
>
> It also creates an image of robustness. Imagine that instead of being
> rudely dropped to a terminal prompt, the user is instead able to log in
> as usual and see a popup like
>> Your home directory is read-only. Do this and that. See https://...
That would be fantastic, and would be miles ahead from any UX I had on
any computer, ever.
> I hope we can all cooperate to make read-only boots nicely robust and
> functional. Please play with this and report bugs. I'll try to solve any
> that relate to systemd. The systemd version with udev.blockdev-read-only
> is not released yet, but is available from koji ci builds [11].
Thanks for working on this, I will definitely give it a try myself.
Christopher
This sounds excellent!
Could we somehow provide a list of links that may be helpful to recover
from certain common failures? Maybe in a MOTD?