On Thu, Jun 03, 2021 at 05:23:20PM -0600, Chris Murphy wrote:
On Thu, Jun 3, 2021 at 12:20 PM Jon LaBadie wrote:
On my 3 systems, F34, F34, and CentOS7, they are
1, 2, and 6 years old respectively.
Are old rescue kernels still useful? (6 years?)
They might be useful to a sysadmin, I think
On Thu, Jun 03, 2021 at 03:48:29PM -0600, Joe Zeff wrote:
On 6/3/21 3:18 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
Surely an old rescue kernel may not be able to mount a BTRFS
filesystem?
BTRFS has been a fully stable part of the kernel since 2013. How old
is your rescue kernel?
Close, one system's r
On Thu, 2021-06-03 at 17:23 -0600, Chris Murphy wrote:
> What I would like to see is (a) an initramfs that can boot a
> graphical stack (b) contains the Live OS dracut modules (c) and
> overlayfs, and wire it up so that the rescue boot entry does a read-
> only sysroot boot + writable overlay like
On Thu, Jun 3, 2021 at 12:20 PM Jon LaBadie wrote:
>
> On my 3 systems, F34, F34, and CentOS7, they are
> 1, 2, and 6 years old respectively.
>
> Are old rescue kernels still useful? (6 years?)
They might be useful to a sysadmin, I think they are useless. The
rescue kernel is really just a "no h
On 6/3/21 3:54 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
It was a theoretical question. My rescue kernel is recent.
As I expected. I answered the way I did as a form of reducto ad absurdum.
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On Thu, 2021-06-03 at 15:48 -0600, Joe Zeff wrote:
> On 6/3/21 3:18 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > Surely an old rescue kernel may not be able to mount a BTRFS
> > filesystem?
>
> BTRFS has been a fully stable part of the kernel since 2013. How old
> is
> your rescue kernel?
It was a theore
On 6/3/21 3:18 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
Surely an old rescue kernel may not be able to mount a BTRFS
filesystem?
BTRFS has been a fully stable part of the kernel since 2013. How old is
your rescue kernel?
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On Thu, 2021-06-03 at 12:51 -0600, Joe Zeff wrote:
> On 6/3/21 12:20 PM, Jon LaBadie wrote:
> >
> > Are old rescue kernels still useful? (6 years?)
>
> They're still just as useful as they were when they were installed.
> Of
> course, that means that any function that was added later isn't
> t
> On 6/3/21 11:20 AM, Jon LaBadie wrote:
>
> If you delete the rescue kernel and initrd, they will be recreated the
> next time you install a kernel.
[KlugscheissMode on]
what is only valide when:
- no one has changed the default "yes" to "no" in
/usr/lib/dracut/dracut.conf.d/02-rescue.conf
- a
On 6/3/21 2:33 PM, Matthew Miller wrote:
On Thu, Jun 03, 2021 at 02:20:33PM -0400, Jon LaBadie wrote:
On my 3 systems, F34, F34, and CentOS7, they are
1, 2, and 6 years old respectively.
Are old rescue kernels still useful? (6 years?)
Yes -- they will let you boot into the system. The resc
On 6/3/21 11:20 AM, Jon LaBadie wrote:
Are there automated or manual procedures to update
a rescue kernel?
If you delete the rescue kernel and initrd, they will be recreated the
next time you install a kernel.
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On 6/3/21 12:20 PM, Jon LaBadie wrote:
Are old rescue kernels still useful? (6 years?)
They're still just as useful as they were when they were installed. Of
course, that means that any function that was added later isn't there,
but that doesn't matter because you're only going to use it i
On Thu, Jun 03, 2021 at 02:20:33PM -0400, Jon LaBadie wrote:
> On my 3 systems, F34, F34, and CentOS7, they are
> 1, 2, and 6 years old respectively.
> > Are old rescue kernels still useful? (6 years?)
Yes -- they will let you boot into the system. The rescue initrd includes
all available drivers
On my 3 systems, F34, F34, and CentOS7, they are
1, 2, and 6 years old respectively.
Are old rescue kernels still useful? (6 years?)
Are there automated or manual procedures to update
a rescue kernel?
Are there best practices for rescue kernel update?
If there are, I've missed them.
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On 2021-06-03 10:09 a.m., Robert McBroom via users wrote:
The utility FSlint has many of the attributes for scanning the dust
bunnies out of my drives. It doesn't seem to available of Fedora
anymore. Did it just lose a maintainer or be declared too hazardous to use?
It hasn't been built since
On Thu, Jun 3, 2021, at 10:09 AM, Robert McBroom via users wrote:
> The utility FSlint has many of the attributes for scanning the dust
> bunnies out of my drives. It doesn't seem to available of Fedora
> anymore. Did it just lose a maintainer or be declared too hazardous to
> use?
My google of
The utility FSlint has many of the attributes for scanning the dust
bunnies out of my drives. It doesn't seem to available of Fedora
anymore. Did it just lose a maintainer or be declared too hazardous to use?
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