Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Failover root devices | From | Richard Weinberger <> | Date | Thu, 17 Sep 2015 20:40:35 +0200 |
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Am 17.09.2015 um 20:37 schrieb Austin S Hemmelgarn: > On 2015-09-17 13:47, Richard Weinberger wrote: >> 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. >> > Ha, not unless you're using systemd. I have more than 2 dozen servers with complex setups that boot just fine without an initramfs. Yes there is more setup done in initramfs > these days, but it's still not actually needed in most cases except complicated storage setups.
I really don't count root=UUID... or root=LABEL... as complicated storage setup...
Thanks, //richard
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