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Comparison health checker greenboot

Ignaz Forster edited this page Feb 1, 2020 · 2 revisions

What health-checker is for read-only openSUSE systems, https://github.com/LorbusChris/greenboot is for the Fedora world. As both project share very similar goals Christian and myself were discussing the possibility to cooperate and unify the projects. The corresponding Fedora ticket is https://github.com/LorbusChris/greenboot/issues/24.

Comparison

health-checker greenboot
Language Bash Bash
Rollback done by Depending on stage; GRUB2: 05_health_check, evaluating health_checker_flag, setting the last successfully booted snapshot; dracut & regular system: btrfs subvolume set-default ... GRUB2: 08_fallback_counting, evaluating boot_counter; snippet seems to be ostree specific
Detect kernel errors Yes: health_checker_flag is set when selecting a kernel and not reset on next GRUB2 load
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