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authorWilliam Hubbs <w.d.hubbs@gmail.com>2018-08-14 10:21:27 -0500
committerWilliam Hubbs <w.d.hubbs@gmail.com>2018-08-14 10:21:27 -0500
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Stop mounting efivarfs read-only
We do not need to do this any longer since all supported linux kernels make efivarfs immutable and the tools that manipulate it are aware of this feature. This fixes https://github.com/openrc/openrc/issues/238.
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@@ -11,6 +11,13 @@ The only place I know that this was used was Gentoo Baselayout 1.x, so
it shouldn't affect anyone since baselayout-1 has been dead for a few
years.
+Since all supported Linux kernel versions now make efivarfs immutable
+and all of the tools that access efivarfs are aware of this, we no
+longer mount efivarfs read-only. See the following github issue for more
+information:
+
+https://github.com/openrc/openrc/issues/238
+
## OpenRC 0.37
start-stop-daemon now supports logging stdout and stderr of daemons to