12/12/12 15:01, intrigeri wrote: > anonym wrote (12 Dec 2012 13:22:49 GMT) : >>> I am unlikely to have time to test it before the freeze, >>> so "please review and merge" again if you feel like testing it first. >>> >>> Else, I guess this will mature for 0.17. > >> I think the latter is the best. > > OK. Thanks for thinking of it! > >> It's not like we're missing out on some highly necessary >> features/bugfixes by not doing this, so I don't think it's worth >> the risk. > > I probably have not made it clear enough, but my main motivation for > pushing this branch in time for 0.16 was Debian bug #688782. > Quoting Gaudenz: > > I'm setting the severity to grave as without these changes the > persistence filesystems can not be seen from the live system and > therefore cannot be remounted readonly on shutdown. This leaves > these filesystem in an inconsistent state which may lead to data > corruption. > > ... but still, I'm unsure this would be worth the risks, > and I absolutely don't mean to be insisting.
The way I understand it, those patches are only relevant if persistence is activated in initramfs time. Since we activate it in user space, the mounts are done on a visible part of the filesystem, so we're safe. Cheers! _______________________________________________ tails-dev mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.boum.org/listinfo/tails-dev
