On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 4:47 PM, Kay Sievers <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 3:41 PM, Kay Sievers <[email protected]> wrote: >> Yes, you can mount the root block device to a different place a second >> time, and should be able to unlink the file and replace it, then >> umount the file on the real /, and all should be atomic. > > Nah, sorry, it probably fails with being busy when it's over-mounted. > We would need to invent some other way to do this trickery when the > system is already up and running.
Bind mounts (`mount --bind /etc /mnt`) wouldn't fail, though. Or bind-mounting the old /etc/machine-id to /run/machine-id.real? -- Mantas Mikulėnas <[email protected]> _______________________________________________ systemd-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
