[arch-releng] [RFC] Switch from dm-snapshot to overlay

Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi vmlinuz386 at gmail.com
Thu Aug 13 22:39:15 UTC 2015


On 08/13/2015 05:07 AM, Thomas Bächler wrote:
> Am 30.07.2015 um 11:53 schrieb Christian Hesse:
>>> (2) /etc/machine-id: Failed to unmount transient /etc/machine-id file in
>>> our private namespace: Invalid argument
>>
>> This happens even if you set the machine-id in initramfs. On an ext4-based
>> machine I have:
>>
>> # systemctl status systemd-machine-id-commit.service
>> ● systemd-machine-id-commit.service - Commit a transient machine-id on disk
>>    Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/systemd-machine-id-commit.service; static; vendor preset: disabled)
>>    Active: inactive (dead)
>> Condition: start condition failed at Thu 2015-07-30 08:29:45 CEST; 3h 19min ago
>>            ConditionPathIsMountPoint=/etc/machine-id was not met
>>      Docs: man:systemd-machine-id-commit.service(8)
>>
> 
> Since this is a live system, we can simply mask this service to make the
> error go away - we don't need it.
> 

Yes, or just wait for Linux-4.2 that seems to fix some overlayfs to make
it more POSIX compliant.


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