On Thu, 24 May 2018, Rick Troth wrote: > Explain to me how a KERNEL update relates to a finger-pointing fest > among three user-space packages and the users? > > I DO use XFS on some systems. I prolly fall into the fourth group, but > was already pointing my digits at that second bullet.
The kernel needs to be reached, and at shutdown, left Dracut, and early on, systemd acting as 'init' need to transition out of an initrd into a (periodically updated) kernel, and mount filesytems At shutdown / reboot, filesystems need to be synced and 'cleanly' umounted XFS does not 'sync' as others do, and Dracut but 'plymouth' assert that it does to systemd (which does the umounts ...) So arbitrary FS may be left marked 'dirty' and in need of recovery But the new kernel does not have all the tools it needs to get there Read the (horrifying as to denials of accountability, and a lack of 'taking ownership' and fixing stuff) thread > Here is a trailhead to read back and forth from: > http://tinyurl.com/y7d2a4he As to Alan's later question, it was over on the Fedoraproject 'side of the house' [where breaking stuff is considered a feature], and the RHEL 7.5 release notes indicate an intent to no longer seek to 'mainstream' XFS going forward -- Russ herrold ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/
