Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Failover root devices | From | Richard Weinberger <> | Date | Thu, 17 Sep 2015 19:52:33 +0200 |
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Am 17.09.2015 um 19:49 schrieb Drew DeVault: >> 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. > > Most initramfs systems will parse the root= line of your kernel command line and use it to remount root. The kernel seems like the best place to establish this, since the various > initramfs solutions will implement the same format just to support parsing the kernel command line correctly. I mean, maybe that's not enough to justify putting it in the kernel, > but that's why I see the kernel as the appropriate place to implement this feature.
Better send a patch to dracut folks. :-) Major distros use it and if the feature is nice other initramfs implementations will adopt it too.
Thanks, //richard
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