From: tytso@mit.edu
To: Christoph Anton Mitterer <calestyo@scientia.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: (stupid) how to specify the root-device via kernel parameters
Date: Sat, 26 Jun 2010 09:46:38 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100626134638.GQ6843@thunk.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1277553549.29791.38.camel@fermat.scientia.net>
On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 01:59:09PM +0200, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote:
>
> My question:
> These are intended (especially root/nfsroot) to really name the device,
> on which the filesystem directly lays, right?
> E.g. if the ext4-root-fs is on /dev/sda1,... => root=/dev/sda1
>
> I've seen several initramfs scripts (which I'd like to fix),... where
> people abuse this or misuse this in setups where a root-fs is used on
> multi-stacked block layers (e.g. something like disk->lvm->dm-crypt->fs)
Abuse this how? What do you think is "wrong"?
- Ted
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2010-06-26 11:59 Christoph Anton Mitterer
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2010-06-26 14:13 ` Christoph Anton Mitterer
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