Re: F38 proposal: Unified Kernel Support Phase 1 (System-Wide Change proposal)

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On Wed, Dec 21, 2022 at 7:17 AM Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Dec 21, 2022 at 12:53:05PM +0100, Vitaly Zaitsev via devel wrote:
> > On 21/12/2022 12:38, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> > > Why shouldn't FAT be used for /boot.  In an EFI world, /boot
> > > is used for the same functional pupose as the ESP, which is
> > > already going to use FAT.
> >
> > Doesn't support links, lournaling and ACLs.
>
> Is that something you need in /boot?
>

Yes, because content is directly installed there.

> And journaling actually is more a problem than a solution due to
> firmware (or grub) filesystem drivers often not having full support for
> the journal.  Luckily this is rarely a problem in practice because /boot
> is rarely written to.
>

We could just make those read-only from the bootloader side then. I
have /boot on btrfs, which grub/efifs doesn't support writing to at
all anyway. Write grubenv settings into the BIOS boot partition or ESP
rather than /boot.




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