From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754154Ab3KUU3m (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Nov 2013 15:29:42 -0500 Received: from mta01.ornl.gov ([128.219.177.14]:60772 "EHLO mta01.ornl.gov" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751923Ab3KUU3l (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Nov 2013 15:29:41 -0500 X-Greylist: delayed 593 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Thu, 21 Nov 2013 15:29:40 EST X-SG: RELAYLIST X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.93,746,1378872000"; d="scan'208";a="73437234" Message-ID: <1385065186.18238.0.camel@frustration.ornl.gov> Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] Add ceph root filesystem functionality and documentation. From: David Dillow To: mark.doffman@codethink.co.uk Cc: ceph-devel@vger.kernel.org, sage@inktank.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org, rob.taylor@codethink.co.uk Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2013 15:19:46 -0500 In-Reply-To: <1385000024-23463-1-git-send-email-mark.doffman@codethink.co.uk> References: <1385000024-23463-1-git-send-email-mark.doffman@codethink.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.8.5 (3.8.5-2.fc19dad) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 2013-11-20 at 20:13 -0600, mark.doffman@codethink.co.uk wrote: > The following patch series adds the ability to use a ceph distributed > file system as the root device. The functionality is similar to > NFS root but for the ceph filesystem. Why do this in the kernel vs in the initramfs? Dracut would be a more appropriate place, I think, as it has support for other network root devices already.