From: "Lars R. Damerow" <lars@xxxxxxxxx>
We've been finding cases where multiple instances of dracut can be launched
simultaneously, resulting in a corrupted initramfs file. This patch makes
dracut write the initramfs to a new file, then move it into place atomically.
---
dracut.sh | 5 +++--
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/dracut.sh b/dracut.sh
index 31cf2a5..da96aaa 100755
--- a/dracut.sh
+++ b/dracut.sh
@@ -1103,10 +1103,11 @@ fi
rm -f "$outfile"
dinfo "*** Creating image file ***"
if ! ( umask 077; cd "$initdir"; find . |cpio -R 0:0 -H newc -o --quiet| \
- $compress > "$outfile"; ); then
- dfatal "dracut: creation of $outfile failed"
+ $compress > "$outfile.$$"; ); then
+ dfatal "dracut: creation of $outfile.$$ failed"
exit 1
fi
+mv $outfile.$$ $outfile
dinfo "*** Creating image file done ***"
dinfo "Wrote $outfile:"
--
1.8.0
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