Ryan Steele wrote: > [...]
In fact, it had started deleting the local mirror, which had been mounted via NFS. It's not catastrophic, since I can rebuild it with debmirror,
I think that's very well a quite bad bug, when make-fai-nfsroot deletes all the nfsroot including the contents of the still mounted mirror!
Depending on where you are, it can very well be catastrophic, as not everywhere is an >10Mbit download link...
but why would make-nfs-root (called via fai-setup) not unmount that NFS mirror before executing an 'rm -rf' in an attempt to get rid of the old nfsroot?
Because it's a bug, guess. I also guess, that the nfs mounting of the mirror simply is not used so very much - as using an ftp apt mirror is simpler - and when this is configured it can also easier later be used by the installed systems.
Henning
