From 8051be0e4a82590a76e2d76662a57ca624ddc89c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001

From: Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>

Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2014 20:00:01 +0100

Subject: [PATCH] switch-root: explain why we don't care about

 base_filesystem_create() failing

(cherry picked from commit 64e18fd626838c3500e28b4dbf86ed62206fff47)

---

 src/shared/switch-root.c | 5 +++++

 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/shared/switch-root.c b/src/shared/switch-root.c

index 1a558b897b..3adb8463c5 100644

--- a/src/shared/switch-root.c

+++ b/src/shared/switch-root.c

@@ -102,6 +102,11 @@ int switch_root(const char *new_root, const char *oldroot, bool detach_oldroot,

                 }

         }

+        /* Do not fail, if base_filesystem_create() fails. Not all

+         * switch roots are like base_filesystem_create() wants them

+         * to look like. They might even boot, if they are RO and

+         * don't have the FS layout. Just ignore the error and

+         * switch_root() nevertheless. */

         (void) base_filesystem_create(new_root);

         if (chdir(new_root) < 0) {