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1 files changed, 27 insertions, 33 deletions
diff --git a/gnu/build/linux-boot.scm b/gnu/build/linux-boot.scm
index 001c52fa3d..ea1971ff9c 100644
--- a/gnu/build/linux-boot.scm
+++ b/gnu/build/linux-boot.scm
@@ -255,39 +255,33 @@ UNIONFS."
(newline port)
(close-port port)))
- (catch #t
- (lambda ()
- (if volatile-root?
- (begin
- (mkdir-p "/real-root")
- (mount root "/real-root" type MS_RDONLY)
- (mkdir-p "/rw-root")
- (mount "none" "/rw-root" "tmpfs")
-
- ;; We want read-write /dev nodes.
- (make-essential-device-nodes #:root "/rw-root")
-
- ;; Make /root a union of the tmpfs and the actual root. Use
- ;; 'max_files' to set a high RLIMIT_NOFILE for the unionfs process
- ;; itself. Failing to do that, we quickly run out of file
- ;; descriptors; see <http://bugs.gnu.org/17827>.
- (unless (zero? (system* unionfs "-o"
- "cow,allow_other,use_ino,suid,dev,max_files=65536"
- "/rw-root=RW:/real-root=RO"
- "/root"))
- (error "unionfs failed"))
-
- ;; Make sure unionfs remains alive till the end. Because
- ;; 'fuse_daemonize' doesn't tell the PID of the forked daemon, we
- ;; have to resort to 'pidof' here.
- (mark-as-not-killable (pidof unionfs)))
- (begin
- (check-file-system root type)
- (mount root "/root" type))))
- (lambda args
- (format (current-error-port) "exception while mounting '~a': ~s~%"
- root args)
- (start-repl)))
+ (if volatile-root?
+ (begin
+ (mkdir-p "/real-root")
+ (mount root "/real-root" type MS_RDONLY)
+ (mkdir-p "/rw-root")
+ (mount "none" "/rw-root" "tmpfs")
+
+ ;; We want read-write /dev nodes.
+ (make-essential-device-nodes #:root "/rw-root")
+
+ ;; Make /root a union of the tmpfs and the actual root. Use
+ ;; 'max_files' to set a high RLIMIT_NOFILE for the unionfs process
+ ;; itself. Failing to do that, we quickly run out of file
+ ;; descriptors; see <http://bugs.gnu.org/17827>.
+ (unless (zero? (system* unionfs "-o"
+ "cow,allow_other,use_ino,suid,dev,max_files=65536"
+ "/rw-root=RW:/real-root=RO"
+ "/root"))
+ (error "unionfs failed"))
+
+ ;; Make sure unionfs remains alive till the end. Because
+ ;; 'fuse_daemonize' doesn't tell the PID of the forked daemon, we
+ ;; have to resort to 'pidof' here.
+ (mark-as-not-killable (pidof unionfs)))
+ (begin
+ (check-file-system root type)
+ (mount root "/root" type)))
(copy-file "/proc/mounts" "/root/etc/mtab"))