/boot on Btrfs still not supported, main problem is anaconda and grubby

Chris Murphy lists at colorremedies.com
Fri Mar 20 22:27:01 UTC 2015


This is interesting.

This patch for Anaconda runs grub2-mkconfig twice when media is live +
/boot is on Btrfs.
https://github.com/rhinstaller/anaconda/commit/0fc01e834082f20896728f330faea8e0b200a159

and fixes this blocker bug:

Boot fails because grub initrd entry isn't generated
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1200539

However, on a kernel upgrade I do still run into this:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=864198

So arguably since we're allowing /boot on Btrfs, 864198 could be seen
as a security risk if updated kernels neither appear nor are being
used at boot time?



Chris Murphy


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