Re: Failover root devices

From: Richard Weinberger
Date: Thu Sep 17 2015 - 13:47:11 EST


On Thu, Sep 17, 2015 at 1:49 PM, Drew DeVault <sir@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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.

--
Thanks,
//richard
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