Re: [PATCH v2] dracut: dmsquash-live: overlay module can be built-in the kernel

Federico Vaga <[email protected]> Wed, 3 Aug 2022 17:10:25 +0200
Newsgroups org.kernel.vger.initramfs
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Great, thanks. Should I do directly do a pull request next time?

On Tue, Aug 02, 2022 at 07:00:33PM -0400, Frederick Grose wrote:
>How about this?
>https://github.com/dracutdevs/dracut/pull/1886
>
>On Tue, Aug 2, 2022 at 9:56 AM Federico Vaga <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I've never got a feedback on this patch. Will it be integrated?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> On Wed, May 18, 2022 at 11:47:07AM +0200, Federico Vaga wrote:
>> >The dmsquash-live module assumes that `overlay` is always a module.
>> >Therefore, when `overlay` is built-in the kernel, this module will fail
>> >to detect the presence of such a feature.
>> >
>> >This patch adds a fallback mechanism to check also `/proc/filesystem`.
>> >This is also what happens with the dracut NSF module when loading the
>> >kernel module `rpc_pipefs`.
>> >
>> >Signed-off-by: Federico Vaga <[email protected]>
>> >---
>> > v1 -> v2: do not use unnecessary sub-shell in the if statement
>> >
>> > modules.d/90dmsquash-live/dmsquash-live-root.sh | 2 +-
>> > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>> >
>> >diff --git a/modules.d/90dmsquash-live/dmsquash-live-root.sh
>> b/modules.d/90dmsquash-live/dmsquash-live-root.sh
>> >index fd8a858a..f68a979c 100755
>> >--- a/modules.d/90dmsquash-live/dmsquash-live-root.sh
>> >+++ b/modules.d/90dmsquash-live/dmsquash-live-root.sh
>> >@@ -170,7 +170,7 @@ do_live_overlay() {
>> >         fi
>> >     fi
>> >     if [ -n "$overlayfs" ]; then
>> >-        if ! modprobe overlay; then
>> >+        if ! { modprobe overlay || strstr "$(cat /proc/filesystems)"
>> overlay; }; then
>> >             if [ "$overlayfs" = required ]; then
>> >                 die "OverlayFS is required but not available."
>> >                 exit 1
>> >--
>> >2.27.0
>> >
>>
>> --
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>> Federico Vaga - CERN BE-CEM-EDL
>>

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