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netris-nestri/build/etc/fstab
Wanjohi a76ca9ae81 fix(build): the root really is read-only, and two comments that overclaimed
Three places where build/ said something the tree does not do.

- fstab mounted `/` as `rw`. A box is started with `ro` on the kernel
  command line and `is_read_only: true` on the root device (every config in
  nesbox's tree agrees: examples/vm.json, test.json, run.local.json), so the
  virtio-blk device rejects writes whatever fstab asks for. `rw` here only
  made OpenRC's `root` service attempt a remount that has to fail. The
  Dockerfile already depended on the truth — it pre-creates /nestri/* at
  build time precisely because a runtime mkdir gets EROFS — so this makes
  fstab agree with the comment that was already right.

- build/README.md said nesbox's jail image "extracts Mesa and virglrenderer"
  from this base. It extracts only Mesa. virglrenderer is the host half of
  the native-context protocol and nesbox builds its own, patched, from
  nesbox/patches/; nothing in this image carries it at all.

- conf.d/nestri-user-env called the zink driver-forcing block "load-bearing"
  directly above three exports that are commented out, here and in the
  profile.d copy. Whether they should come back is a separate question; a
  comment insisting disabled lines are load-bearing tells the next reader
  the opposite of what the file does. The reasoning is kept, because it is
  still the reason to re-enable them, along with why both copies have to
  move together.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-01 15:26:59 +03:00

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# `ro`, matching how a box is actually started: nesbox passes `ro` on the
# kernel command line and marks the root device `is_read_only: true` (see
# nesbox's examples/vm.json), so the virtio-blk device refuses writes at the
# device level. Saying `rw` here does not make it writable — it only asks
# OpenRC's `root` service to attempt a remount that the device must reject.
# Everything a running box writes to is a tmpfs or a share below.
/dev/vda / ext4 ro,relatime 0 1
devtmpfs /dev devtmpfs rw,nosuid 0 0
proc /proc proc rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec 0 0
tmpfs /tmp tmpfs rw,nosuid,nodev,size=64M 0 0
tmpfs /run tmpfs rw,nosuid,nodev,size=32M,mode=0755 0 0
tmpfs /var/log tmpfs rw,nosuid,nodev,size=16M 0 0
# POSIX shared memory. devtmpfs does not provide it and nothing else mounts it,
# so without this entry /dev/shm does not exist at all and `shm_open` fails.
#
# PipeWire itself gets by: it allocates buffers with memfd_create and only
# falls back to /dev/shm. Kept as a precaution for anything else that uses
# POSIX shm/semaphores directly — Proton is the known example, and it is not
# part of this image yet (see build/README.md), but a failure here is silent
# rather than fatal, so it costs nothing to have ready.
#
# `nosuid,nodev` and a size cap because everything a game can write to should
# have both.
tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs rw,nosuid,nodev,size=256M 0 0
# The guest's logs, on a host directory that outlives the VM.
#
# Here rather than mounted by a service, because the failures worth reading
# are the ones that happen *before* anything else has mounted something — a
# log directory that appears only after a successful start cannot record an
# unsuccessful one. The tag is fixed by nessh, so plain fstab works.
#
# `nofail` because a VM started without the share still has to boot: that is
# how somebody gets a shell to find out why it has no share.
logs /nestri/logs virtiofs rw,nofail 0 0