[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#652168: don't run "swapoff -a" for lxc

[Roger Leigh]

On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 11:50:40AM +0100, Harald Dunkel wrote:
> PS: A similar problem exists for /etc/init.d/umountroot.
> It remounts the lxc root partition read-only, which affects
> the host system. This is a severe problem.
> 
> The workaround is to disable both startup scripts in
> /etc/insserv/overrides.

Does "ischroot" correctly detect an lxc container?  i.e.

ischroot; echo $?

It should be nonzero on the host system, zero in the container.

If so, we can just run it in the initscript to conditionally
run swapoff and umountroot.


Regards,
Roger

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