From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp04.gnvlscdb.sys.nuvox.net (smtp.nuvox.net [64.89.70.9]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j4HHq4mQ013499 for ; Tue, 17 May 2005 17:52:05 GMT Received: from cgianelloni.nuvox.net (216.215.202.4.nw.nuvox.net [216.215.202.4]) by smtp04.gnvlscdb.sys.nuvox.net (8.12.11/8.12.11) with SMTP id j4HHqGCL001460 for ; Tue, 17 May 2005 13:52:16 -0400 Received: by cgianelloni.nuvox.net (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Tue, 17 May 2005 13:51:53 -0400 Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] i have an idea ! (erescue) From: Chris Gianelloni To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <428A2AEA.40001@gentoo.org> References: <200505151718.06501.vapier@gentoo.org> <1116192710.8413.6.camel@TesterBox.tester.ca> <1116251834.14448.77.camel@cgianelloni.nuvox.net> <1116290915.10849.8.camel@TesterBox.tester.ca> <1116348700.14290.32.camel@cgianelloni.nuvox.net> <428A2AEA.40001@gentoo.org> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-WKeU6fPo6ZAbf/lW7eXq" Organization: Gentoo Linux Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 13:51:53 -0400 Message-Id: <1116352313.14290.34.camel@cgianelloni.nuvox.net> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.2 X-Archives-Salt: 51069453-a5f3-4036-a50d-9c67c8f54c56 X-Archives-Hash: 9e902e9d536afaa3087798954ba3fe21 --=-WKeU6fPo6ZAbf/lW7eXq Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, 2005-05-17 at 10:33 -0700, Donnie Berkholz wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 >=20 > Chris Gianelloni wrote: > > A much better approach would be for there to be a rescue build, > > completely independent of the stages, since it doesn't need to mirror > > them in any way. It should be extracted (self-extracted?) to something > > like /rescue and executed from there, being completely self-contained. > > This keeps it from stomping on system files and breaking > > collision-protect or doing anything else nasty like hosing configuratio= n > > files (ever made the mistake of extracting a stage onto a live > > filesystem?) when unpacked. >=20 > This sounds a lot like saying, use an initrd, but when you pivot roots > to the live filesystem, leave it mounted somewhere. Kinda... This wouldn't require a reboot, though. When the user is done, they simply rm -rf /rescue and their system is clean again. > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) >=20 > iD8DBQFCiirqXVaO67S1rtsRAgHyAJ49adhPpYhwHqUeFNMw4I6h+GUyDwCfbwMB > rgA0GKbYsBjd8K9I7X2pyE8=3D > =3DtZSe > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=20 Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering - Strategic Lead/QA Manager Games - Developer Gentoo Linux --=-WKeU6fPo6ZAbf/lW7eXq Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBCii85kT4lNIS36YERAibcAJ9cA4LOW4Wmf21T0M4+/fI0ViAUugCfSfls 79+xYWg/lIM8NW5f0fJnDY8= =y9fw -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-WKeU6fPo6ZAbf/lW7eXq-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list