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Author: Edward Bartolo
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To: Rainer Weikusat
CC: dng
Subject: Re: [DNG] Systemd at work: rm -rf EFI
This is enough evidence to be very vigilant where an OS uses systemd.
Breaking hardware is a very serious issue, will not fix is not acceptable
as a responsible reply.
On Feb 2, 2016 2:25 PM, "Rainer Weikusat" <rainerweikusat@???>
wrote:

> Jaromil <jaromil@???> writes:
> > On Tue, 02 Feb 2016, Wim wrote:
> >
> >>    [2]https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/2402
> >>    Well, you've probably guessed the answer - Won't fix.

> >
> > meanwhile, on the background, the usual bullying goes on among the
> > systemd hooligans, sarcastically liquidating the concern with some
> > cynical remarks, as if it would be a deserved punition for users
> > caught into a bricked laptop rather than an erased filesystem:
> >
> >
> http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=UEFI-rm-root-directory
>
> Hmm ... the core issue remains that deleting everything which is
> accessible via some mounted filesystem deletes everything accessible via
> this filesystem. The original bbs text claimed
>
>         We weren't dumb enough to leave important partitions mounted. We
>         unmounted everything except of root (/).

>
> Apparently, someone's idea of 'important' was somewhat out of sync with
> reality. There'd be an issue here if it was impossible to umount
> this filesystem or mount it read-only prior to issuing the delete.
>
> That said, Larabel surely acts like a complete duckhead once it gets to
> systemd related issues.
>
>
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