05.11.2015 21:36, Carlos E. R. пишет:
On 2015-11-05 19:27, Andrei Borzenkov wrote:
05.11.2015 21:02, Carlos E. R. пишет:
I never understood why it had to be created.
Well, I don't have download figures, but it is quite popular.
OK, I added to scores by downloading it yesterday :)
What does it offer? Well, the same kernel, and YaST.
What can you do with YaST on live boot? Can you use it to manage installed system? If yes, I missed how to do it. If not, what use it has?
chroot to the installed system, do things.
If you chroot you do not use rescue system at all.
Or don't, and configure some things in the rescue system.
You can use the partitioner module, for example (I did).
Will it also configure main system (add/remove mount points in /etc/fstab, update /etc/crypttab etc)?
I installed packages on it, using zypper or rpm (I don't remember which).
Yes, zypper may be useful. Except how many users know about -R option? And it requires full mount tree to be reconstructed manually.
Kernel ... OK, that is valid argument.
The same tool set as the computer under repair. Some things requires similar tools and versions, but others are simply more familiar.
That's really too vague. The only truly unique tool is snapper - can you use snapper on rescue medium to manage your main system(s)?
I don't use btrfs, but I do use XFS repair tools. Yes, of course they work.
snapper in *rescue* to manage snapshots in *main* installation? OK, it has -r option so may be something can be done. But it does not explain, what - says "works only for some commands". Are XFS repair tools something that is SUSE specific and is not present in other distributions?
In fact, people on 13.2 had to use TW rescue image to repair breakage on 13.2 btrfs root filesystem, unrepairable because of bug on 13.2.
Any rescue media with newer kernels/btrfs tools would do. So basically the advantage of this image are matching kernel version (but your last example shows that it is questionable advantage) and ability to manage packages using native tool. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org