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Author: Wim
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Subject: Re: [DNG] Bad UEFI: was Systemd at work: rm -rf EFI
The proposed fix is to mark it in fstab as read only...

I was under the impression fstab was one of the things systemd wanted to
replace/eradicate?

2016-02-02 16:15 GMT+01:00 Fernando M. Maresca <fmaresca@???>:

> On Tue, Feb 02, 2016 at 10:07:17AM -0500, Steve Litt wrote:
> > Back in the BIOS/MBR days, we had a very thin, very tiny interface to
> > the pre-boot stuff. About the only way you could mess it up was to blow
> > a bios upgrade, so you were always *very* careful during that process.
> > But in every other respect with BIOS/MBR, nothing you could do in
> > software could damage your hardware.
> >
> > BIOS/MBR had a very thin interface.
> >
> > Now comes UEFI, with this huge interface, to its pre-boot firmware and
> > non-volatile RAM, intended to be accessed by run of the mill
> > application programs and even commands typed in at the command prompt.
> > How is this exposure of many different "EFI variables" to every
> > possible software on the system different from systemd's spaghetti web
> > of dependencies?
> >
> > Answer: It's not. It's one more case of abdication of modularity.
>
> +1
>
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