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Seems perfectly useful to me. The stated intention is to use that to provide things like debugging tools in setups that are deliberately minimal by design and d
by dale_glass 6y ago
Seems perfectly useful to me. The stated intention is to use that to provide things like debugging tools in setups that are deliberately minimal by design and don't include any troubleshooting functionality, maybe not even a package manager to install any with.
A bit of a niche use perhaps, but seems to be very useful to me. And it's good that it's in systemd because otherwise you'd have to hack the boot process of every distro you might want this in.
And I wouldn't say it wasn't broken, it's just a need you personally didn't have. I do actually have this need in a virtualization context, and may well making use of it.
- anotherhue 6y agoWould an approach like this not also serve your needs? https://www.unix.com/man-page/FreeBSD/8/rescue/ https://www.unix.com/man-page/FreeBSD/8/rescue/
- dale_glass 6y agoThere's other approaches would work for me, yes. I could also download a tar file with what's missing and unpack it over root, I suppose. But then root would need to be read-write, like your solution also requires. Also, FreeBSD wouldn't work. We use many Linux specific features, and I have no interest whatsoever in porting all that stuff to BSD for no gain in functionality. Also, I see no issue to somebody else solving my problems and not needing to write more stuff that's unrelated to the actual purpose of what I'm doing.