The maximum allowed value of the sysfs device index entry was limited to
16383 (2^14-1) to avoid the generation of unreasonable onboard interface
names.
For s390 the index can assume a value of up to 65535 (2^16-1) which is
now allowed depending on the new naming flag NAMING_16BIT_INDEX.
Larger index values are considered unreasonable and remain to be
ignored.
This allows to limit units to machines that run on a certain firmware
type. For device tree defined machines checking against the machine's
compatible is also possible.
Similar to sd_bus_error_has_names() that was added in
2b07ec316a.
It is made inline in the hope that the compiler will be able to optimize
all the va_args boilerplate away, and do an efficient comparison when
the arguments are all constants.
In man pages, horizontal space it at premium, and everything should
generally be indented with 2 spaces to make it more likely that the
examples fit on a user's screen.
C.f. 798d3a524e.
Let's make the GPT partition flags configurable when creating new
partitions. This is primarily useful for the read-only flag (which we
want to set for verity enabled partitions).
This adds two settings for this: Flags= and ReadOnly=, which strictly
speaking are redundant. The main reason to have both is that usually the
ReadOnly= setting is the one wants to control, and it' more generic.
Moreover we might later on introduce inherting of flags from CopyBlocks=
partitions, where one might want to control most flags as is except for
the RO flag and similar, hence let's keep them separate.
When using systemd-repart as an installer that replicates the install
medium on another medium it is useful to reference the root
partition/usr partition or verity data that is currently booted, in
particular in A/B scenarios where we have two copies and want to
reference the one we currently use. Let's add a CopyBlocks=auto for this
case: for a partition that uses that we'll copy a suitable partition
from the host.
CopyBlocks=auto finds the partition to copy like this: based on the
configured partition type uuid we determine the usual mount point (i.e.
for the /usr partition type we determine /usr/, and so on). We then
figure out the block device behind that path, through dm-verity and
dm-crypt if necessary. Finally, we compare the partition type uuid of
the partition found that way with the one we are supposed to fill and
only use it if it matches (the latter is primarily important on
dm-verity setups where a volume is likely backed by two partitions and
we need to find the right one).
This is particularly fun to use in conjunction with --image= (where
we'll restrict the device search onto the specify device, for security
reasons), as this allows "duplicating" an image like this:
# systemd-repart --image=source.raw --empty=create --size=auto target.raw
If the right repart data is embedded into "source.raw" this will be able
to create and initialize a partition table on target.raw that carrries
all needed partitions, and will stream the source's file systems onto it
as configured.
So far we already had the CopyFiles= option in systemd-repart drop-in
files, as a mechanism for populating freshly formatted file systems with
files and directories. This adds MakeDirectories= in similar style, and
creates simple directories as listed. The option is of course entirely
redundant, since the same can be done with CopyFiles= simply by copying
in a directory. It's kinda nice to encode the dirs to create directly in
the drop-in files however, instead of providing a directory subtree to
copy in somehere, to make the files more self-contained — since often
just creating dirs is entirely sufficient.
The main usecase for this are GPT OS images that carry only a /usr/
tree, and for which a root file system is only formatted on first boot
via repart. Without any additional CopyFiles=/MakeDirectories=
configuration these root file systems are entirely empty of course
initially. To mount in the /usr/ tree, a directory inode for /usr/ to
mount over needs to be created. systemd-nspawn will do so automatically
when booting up the image, as will the initrd during boot. However, this
requires the image to be writable – which is OK for npawn and
initrd-based boots, but there are plenty tools where read-only operation
is desirable after repart ran, before the image was booted for the first
time. Specifically, "systemd-dissect" opens the image in read-only to
inspect its contents, and this will only work of /usr/ can be properly
mounted. Moreover systemd-dissect --mount --read-only won't succeed
either if the fs is read-only.
Via MakeDirectories= we now provide a way that ensures that the image
can be mounted/inspected in a fully read-only way immediately after
systemd-repart completed. Specifically, let's consider a GPT disk image
shipping with a file usr/lib/repart.d/50-root.conf:
[Partition]
Type=root
Format=btrfs
MakeDirectories=/usr
MakeDirectories=/efi
With this in place systemd-repart will create a root partition when run,
and add /usr and /efi into it as directory inods. This ensures that the
whole image can then be mounted truly read-only anf /usr and /efi can be
overmounted by the /usr partition and the ESP.
This is similar to the --image= switch in the other tools, like
systemd-sysusers or systemd-tmpfiles, i.e. it apply the configuration
from the image to the image.
This is particularly useful for downloading minimized GPT image, and
then extending it to the desired size via:
# systemd-repart --image=foo.image --size=5G
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