Bug#783990: efivarfs is a separate fs and needs moutning

[The Wanderer]

On 2021-07-16 at 12:55, Ian Jackson wrote:

> I have now tested this.  I found that a safety catch in
> mount-functions caused it to not work, and this additional patch is
> needed.
> 
> mount-functions looks in /etc/filesystems and skips mounting things
> which the kernel doesn't seem to supoort.  In general with so many
> filesystems being kernel modules this seems to be of questionable use.
> In this case it definitely broke things: I found that mounting the
> filesystem with mount(8) auto-loads the module.
> 
> I'm using the existence of the mountpoint directory as a proxy for the
> filesystem/module being available.  IDK if that is exactly right, but
> if it isn't the worst case is an error message about failing to mount
> it.

Wouldn't testing the existence of

/lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/fs/efivarfs/efivarfs.ko

be enough, and probably more reliable?

(I'm assuming that the test which skips because "fstype not available"
comes before the one which skips because "already mounted", and that's
why I saw the warning even though it seems to be up and working on my
machine.)

> For your testing:
> 
> AFAICT it isn't a particularly good idea to just copy the new
> mount-functions.sh into /lib but monkey-applying the patch with
> 
>   patch /lib/init/mount-functions.sh < 0001-initsripts-mount-functions-Do-not-check-efivarfs-in-.patch
> 
> worked for me.  With those patches (and the bodge in fstab commented
> it) it all works.

I need to do some other things for a while, so I won't be rebooting
again immediately, but I'll probably test this sometime this afternoon.


My current biggest concern about this is:

-- 
   The Wanderer

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one
persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all
progress depends on the unreasonable man.         -- George Bernard Shaw

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