Re: aborting at stage 1?

[Jorge Almeida <jalmeida@math.ist.utl.pt>]

On Tue, 19 Jun 2007, Gerrit Pape wrote:

>
> Hi,
>
> if something goes wrong in stage 1, the /etc/runit/1 script should exit
> 100.  runit will then skip stage 2, and enter stage 3, see runit(8).
> Possibly some things in stage 3 won't work if the root fs is mounted
> read-only, but finally /etc/runit/3 will exit, and runit will either
> halt or reboot after looking at /etc/runit/reboot.  For read-only
> filesystems, runit supports /etc/runit/reboot being a symlink, even a
> dangling one, which can point into a ramdisk mount point.  This applies
I suppose one can even do without the ramdisk by mounting an appropriate
"static" file over /etc/runit/reboot, with -o remount.

A thing that doesn't seem to play well with a pure-runit approach is
udevd. Maybe a solution would be to create a few static devices (the
ones needed for a particular system) and then run udevd as a stage 2
service, to take care of things like pen drives and such. (Just some
thoughts...)
> HTH, Gerrit.
>
>
Thanks,

Jorge