Re: [Devil-linux-develop] [PATCH] To fix mount issue with mounting bootcd.iso off disk/usb drive

[Heiko Z. <he...@zu...>]

Tim Tait wrote:
> 
> The current scripts have an issue when mounting the bootcd.iso file off 
> of a disk device. The disk is initially mounted under the initrd /mnt 
> point with rw access. When the /mnt/bootcd.iso is mounted followed by 
> the chroot, it then makes it it impossible to unmount the disk device 
> (now on /initrd/mnt) in pre_init, leaving it mounted read/write. I 
> couldn't find a perfect solution to this, but I think these changes help-
> 
> mount_cdrom:
> Remount the disk device ro before mounting the iso. Sure to reduce 
> filesystem corruption during reboots, less security issues. I also added 
> a output line to say what version of the bootcd.iso it found - useful if 
> there was more than one to find - hate to upgrade/downgrade 
> unintentionally..
> 
> pre_init:
> perform "umount -l" (as in lazy)  rather than plain umount. If an actual 
> umount can't be done, this will prevent further access to that mount, 
> making it appear unmounted. When/if it is not busy, it will be 
> unmounted. Probably as good as it can get with current boot method?

DONE

Heiko