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Bug 722410 - Confusing error when attempting to commit device files to OSTree
Confusing error when attempting to commit device files to OSTree
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: ostree
Classification: Infrastructure
Component: general
2013.7
Other Linux
: Normal minor
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Assigned To: OSTree maintainer(s)
OSTree maintainer(s)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2014-01-17 11:58 UTC by Sam Thursfield
Modified: 2014-02-18 20:15 UTC
See Also:
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Description Sam Thursfield 2014-01-17 11:58:25 UTC 
I tried to commit a filesystem that had some nodes in /dev created, and got this:

error: Corrupted archive file; invalid mode 8576

It took a little while to work out the cause. A more helpful error would be something like:

error: You cannot commit device nodes to an OSTree repo
Comment 2 Colin Walters 2014-01-17 15:42:49 UTC 
A quick note: OSTree *used* to support device files; it wasn't too hard to do.

But there's also no good reason I could think of to do so, so I dropped it.  On modern systemd systems, it's expected you use devtmpfs + udev.

And no one really uses fifos anymore except sysvinit.  Which in any case could easily go in /run and be created on boot.
Comment 3 Colin Walters 2014-02-18 20:15:11 UTC 
This was fixed: