Re: [RFC PATCH] Introduce a 'recovery' command line option

From: Richard Weinberger
Date: Tue Aug 16 2016 - 03:05:49 EST


Hi!

On Tue, Aug 16, 2016 at 8:36 AM, Janne Karhunen
<Janne.Karhunen@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Recovery option can be used to define a secondary rootfs
> in case mounting of the primary root fails. This allows
> the kernel to automatically switch to a recovery
> filesystem without the initrd or the bootloader support
> for the switch.

Why are you moving this feature into the kernel?
To support such advanced features we have the initramfs.

dracut has already rootfallback=.

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Thanks,
//richard