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We added composeFS starting in f41. Since it comes with a couple of drawbacks let's document it and explain how to disable it. coreos/fedora-coreos-tracker#1718 (comment) coreos/fedora-coreos-config#3009
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= Composefs | ||
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Fedora CoreOS introduced composefs enabled by default starting in Fedora 41. Composefs is an overlay filesystem where the data comes from the usual ostree deployement, and | ||
metadata are in the composefs file. The result is a truely read-only root (`/`) filesystem, increasing the system integrity and robustness, | ||
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This is a first step towards a full verification of filesystem integrity, even at runtime. | ||
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== What does it change ? | ||
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The main visible change will be that the root filesystem (/) is now small and full (a few MB, 100% used). | ||
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== Known issues | ||
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=== Kdump | ||
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Right now, this prevents kdump from generating it's initramfs as it get confused by the read-only filesystem. | ||
If you want to use kdump and export kernels dumps to the local machine, composefs must be disabled. | ||
A workaround is to configure kdump with a remote target such as ssh or nfs. | ||
The kdump upstream developers are working on a fix. We will update this page when the workaround is no longer needed. | ||
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See [https://github.com/rhkdump/kdump-utils/pull/28 rhkdump/kdump-utils#28]. | ||
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=== Top-level directories | ||
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Another consequence is that it is now impossible to create top-level directories in `/`. | ||
A common use case for those top level directories is to use them as mount points. | ||
We recommend using sub directories in `/var` instead. | ||
Currently, the only way around that is to disable composefs as shown below. | ||
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== Disable composefs | ||
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Composefs can be disabled through a kernel argument: `ostree.prepare-root.composefs=0`. | ||
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.Disabling composefs at provisionning | ||
[source,yaml,subs="attributes"] | ||
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variant: fcos | ||
version: {butane-latest-stable-spec} | ||
kernel_arguments: | ||
should_exist: | ||
- ostree.prepare-root.composefs=0 | ||
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.Disabling composefs on a running FCOS system | ||
[source,bash] | ||
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$ sudo rpm-ostree kargs --append='ostree.prepare-root.composefs=0' | ||
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Note that a reboot is required for the change to take effect. | ||
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== Links | ||
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https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/ComposefsAtomicCoreOSIoT |