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

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On Wed, Dec 21, 2022 at 12:29 PM Lennart Poettering
<mzerqung@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Mi, 21.12.22 12:21, Neal Gompa (ngompa13@xxxxxxxxx) 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.
> > >
> > > What you want in a boot loader: native read access, write access.
> >
> > Actually no, I don't want the boot loader / boot manager writing
> > anything.
>
> Well, good for you.
>
> But I think it would be wise for Fedora to implement automatic
> fallback for hosed kernels, and that requires counting boot attempts,
> and that requires storing the counters somewhere. And that means we
> need to store something somewhere. Hence write access from pre-boot is
> typically desirable. Basically, there are too places a boot loader can
> write stuff: file system and NVRAM. The latter is problematic to write to
> since cheap hw supposedly doesn't allow too many write cycles before
> breaking. Hence file system it must be.
>
> If Fedora every intends to be useful for people who cannot recover a
> hosed system on their own because they are Linux guru themselves, I am
> pretty sure we want automatic boot assessment/fallback logic in place.
>
> And similar for server/embedded stuff. If fedora wants to be deployed
> in such worlds, it's kinda nice if we can automatically recover from
> hosed updates.
>

None of those things require us to write data to /boot. Even in your
model, if you *must* write to a filesystem, the counters can live on
the ESP even if all the system-installed content exists in /boot. I'm
sure you could envision a simple file in the ESP for that. None of
that is permanent configuration, just transient stuff.

> I am sure Neal Gompa can recover his own machines, but not every
> Fedora system comes with a Neal Gompa deployment included.
>

Okay, if you're going to be a jerk about it, no Fedora system comes
with a helpful version of Lennart to work out problems people
encounter with this stuff.


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