Re: restarting s6-svscan (as pid 1)

2023-11-18 Thread Laurent Bercot
> I believe (have not yet tested) that I can relatively simply create the maintenance system on the fly by copying a subset of the root fs into a ramdisk, so it doesn't take any space until it's needed. The problem with that approach is that your maintenance system now depends on your

Re: restarting s6-svscan (as pid 1)

2023-11-18 Thread Daniel Barlow
"Laurent Bercot" writes: > That said, I'm not sure your goal is as valuable as you think it is. > If you have a running system, by definition, it's running. It has > booted, > and you have access to its rootfs and all the tools on it; there is > nothing to gain by doing something fragile such

Re: restarting s6-svscan (as pid 1)

2023-11-17 Thread Laurent Bercot
This may be a weird question, maybe: is there any way to persuade s6-svscan (as pid 1) to restart _without_ doing a full hardware reboot? The use case I have in mind is: starting from a regular running system, I want to create a small "recovery" system in a ramdisk and switch to it with

Re: restarting s6-svscan (as pid 1)

2023-11-17 Thread Steve Litt
d...@telent.net said on Fri, 17 Nov 2023 22:20:32 + >I was thinking I could use the .svscan/finish script to check for the >existence of the "maintenance mode" ramfs, remount it onto / >and then `exec /bin/init` as its last action, though it seems a bit >cheesy to have a file called `finish`

Re: restarting s6-svscan (as pid 1)

2023-11-17 Thread adam
Quoting d...@telent.net (2023-11-17 14:20:32) > I was thinking I could use the .svscan/finish script to check for the > existence of the "maintenance mode" ramfs, remount it onto / > and then `exec /bin/init` as its last action, though it seems a bit > cheesy to have a file called `finish` that

restarting s6-svscan (as pid 1)

2023-11-17 Thread dan
This may be a weird question, maybe: is there any way to persuade s6-svscan (as pid 1) to restart _without_ doing a full hardware reboot? The use case I have in mind is: starting from a regular running system, I want to create a small "recovery" system in a ramdisk and switch to it with