Re: 2.6.0-test3-mm1 and rootflags

["Andrey Borzenkov"]

> If there's a consensus that a 'rootopts=' would be a Good Thing, I'll write a
> patch.  If not, I'll just fix the initial value of root_mountflags > in init/do_mount.c ;)

Mandrake does it in initrd - if mkinitrd detects any non-standard
rootfs option in use it makes it be mounted from within initrd.

Drawback is you can't change them on the fly. Unfortunately parsing
rootfstype/rootflags in initrd is not trivial given size constraints.

-andrey


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