Re: root=LABEL= problem [Was: Re: Linux Issue]

[Arjan van de Ven]

On Thu, 2006-02-02 at 17:51 +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> >>> > ds: no socket drivers loaded!
> >>> > VFS: Cannot open root device "LABEL=/" or 00:00
> >>> change root=LABEL=/ to root=/dev/XXX. Vanilla doesn't support this...
> >>
> >>ehhh??
> >>sure it does.
> >>
> >>this is not a kernel feature, but an initrd feature, independent on
> >>which kernel is used (there never was and is not a patch for this in any
> >>distro kernel I know about)
> >Ok, thank you for pointing that out.
> >
> 
> So does someone have a kernel-side patch for enabling LABEL=?

I'm not aware of one existing.

>  (Is the 
> kernel even able to tell the label of a filesystem, or is that specific to 
> mount(8)?)

currently the kernel is fully unaware of any labels, other than having
the space reserved in the various filesystem on disk metadata.



This is one of those things that is better done in userspace really.....


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