Am 17.09.2015 um 20:37 schrieb Austin S Hemmelgarn:That's not what I mean, I mean stuff like /usr and /var on separate filesystems, in a couple of cases self-assembling MD arrays, and in a couple of cases ATAoE or iSCSI backed root filesystems on hardware that doesn't natively support booting such devices.
On 2015-09-17 13:47, Richard Weinberger wrote:
On Thu, Sep 17, 2015 at 1:49 PM, Drew DeVault <sir@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: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
On 2015-09-17 1:40 PM, Ortwin GlÃck 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.
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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