Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 17 Sep 2015 19:47:04 +0200 | Subject | Re: Failover root devices | From | Richard Weinberger <> |
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On Thu, Sep 17, 2015 at 1:49 PM, Drew DeVault <sir@cmpwn.com> wrote: > On 2015-09-17 1:40 PM, Ortwin Glück wrote: >> You can do that completely in user space from an initramfs. > > Yep, I'm aware of that. I think it would still be useful for the kernel > to support it. Bonus - if the kernel supports it, there's a standard way > of doing it that would propegate down to the various initramfs designs > of the distros without having me write patches against all of them. > Right?
I really don't see why we need this feature in-kernel as it can be done perfectly fine in userspace. Every non-trivial system needs an initramfs anyway these days.
-- Thanks, //richard
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