From: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
To: Mathieu Othacehe <m.othacehe@gmail.com>
Cc: guix-devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Installer and luks support.
Date: Sun, 09 Dec 2018 14:35:21 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87mupe3js6.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87sgz7zejd.fsf@gmail.com> (Mathieu Othacehe's message of "Sun, 09 Dec 2018 10:15:18 +0900")
Hi!
Mathieu Othacehe <m.othacehe@gmail.com> skribis:
>> I suppose that if you run “halt” or “reboot”, everything is terminated
>> properly, right? I’m not sure if you should worry beyond that; in
>> general, it’s reasonable to assume that people will reboot when the
>> installation is over, no?
>
> Yes it is. My concern is when the guix system init command fails because
> let's say the network went down, in that case forcing the user to reboot
> and restart the install process seems painful, don't you think?
Good point. Perhaps a simple hack would be to detect that /mnt is
already an overlayfs mount and in that case skip the “herd start
cow-store /mnt” step? Would that be enough?
Ludo’.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-12-09 13:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-12-08 1:58 Installer and luks support Mathieu Othacehe
2018-12-08 23:05 ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-12-09 1:15 ` Mathieu Othacehe
2018-12-09 10:47 ` Gábor Boskovits
2018-12-09 11:15 ` Mathieu Othacehe
2018-12-09 11:25 ` Gábor Boskovits
2018-12-09 13:35 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2018-12-09 14:11 ` Mathieu Othacehe
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