[Bug 197602] Re: update-initramfs is vulnerable to power loss

[TerryG]

Marking as Confirmed.  That's a good question.  The system should be
left bootable for as long as possible.  What's the approximate time
difference between creating it to /tmp and writing it over, versus
creating-and-writing on-the-fly?

For Gutsy, 9.2 MB for initrd with a 35 MB/sec disk would be 0.26 seconds
to copy over.  Anybody measure update-initramfs with a stopwatch?

Of course, when you lose power, anything is possible.  That is why I
have an UPS on each of my computers.

To the reporter:  Did the backup copies and/or older kernel not boot
either?  Granted you would have to login with a rescue shell and
manually copy over.  I'm running Linux Mint 4 XFCE and I've got backups
of my original Gutsy kernel and initrd.  With updates you would have
multiple kernels and initrd images.


** Changed in: initramfs-tools (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Confirmed

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update-initramfs is vulnerable to power loss
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