Bug 1122308

Summary: READONLY=yes still mounts / RW
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Reporter: Ben Woodard <woodard>
Component: doc-Storage_Administration_GuideAssignee: Maxim Svistunov <msvistun>
Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE QA Contact: ecs-bugs
Severity: medium Docs Contact:
Priority: high    
Version: 7.0CC: foraker1, initscripts-maint-list, jhradile, lnykryn, mnavrati, msvistun, rhel-docs, tdhooge, tgummels
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Target Release: 7.3   
Hardware: x86_64   
OS: Linux   
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Last Closed: 2016-11-14 10:51:31 UTC Type: Bug
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Description Ben Woodard 2014-07-22 22:01:08 UTC 
Description of problem:
The purpose of READONLY=yes in /etc/sysconfig/readonly-root is to do two things:
1) make a bunch of bind mounts that provide a writable area for things that actually need to write
2) tell initscripts not to remount the root RW

In the current RHEL7 it does the first but it still remounts the root FS RW.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
initscripts-9.49.15-1.el7.x86_64

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.  echo "READONLY=yes" > /etc/sysconfig/readonly-root
2. reboot
3.

Actual results:
/ is mounted rw

Expected results:
/ ia mounrws ro

Additional info:
Comment 5 Lukáš Nykrýn 2015-06-08 09:00:08 UTC 
This is basically can't fix in initscripts, we don't control boot process anymore. So lets at least lets check if it is documented.
Comment 6 Travis Gummels 2016-06-10 16:22:56 UTC 
Jim,

I presume you guys found a way around this.  Can you share what you did?

Travis
Comment 10 Ben Woodard 2016-06-28 09:55:49 UTC 
This is more of a question for Trent rather than Jim
Comment 18 Milan Navratil 2016-11-14 10:51:31 UTC 
An updated version of the Red hat Enterprise Linux 7 Storage Administration Guide is now available on the Customer Portal:

https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/7/html-single/Storage_Administration_Guide/index.html