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7. Known bugs and limitations

  1. Space calculations will never be completely accurate because of inode overheads and object file stripping.
  2. Yard requires that you have ldconfig in your file set so Yard can use it to regenerate the cache. This is somewhat inelegant, since ldconfig isn't generally useful on a rescue disk. Eventually ldconfig may have some kind of "chroot" option to eliminate this need.
  3. Occasionally when using a loopback device the ext2 filesystem will become corrupted for no apparent reason. See the note at the end of the loopback appendix.
  4. Yard's method of determining the release number of a kernel image (ie, to derive what uname -r would print) is usually correct. Occasionally it returns the wrong version. This seems to happen when a kernel is remade without doing make mrproper.


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