Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 28 Feb 2000 00:28:13 -0800 (PST) | From | Tigran Aivazian <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] rootfstype boot argument |
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actually, I did the rootfstype thing (and /proc/config but different from Peter's) too, ages ago :)
http://www.ocston.org/~tigran/patches/rootfs-2.3.29-p1.patch
and it is nicer to call it rootfs than rootfstype, because:
a) compatible with SVR4
b) most people are running hacked versions of LILO shipped with major distributions (Red Hat, SuSE etc) which have a limit of 79 bytes per command line. One can overcome this limit with my BCP thing but only a handful of people actually use it.
Regards, Tigran
On Mon, 28 Feb 2000, Guest section DW wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 27, 2000 at 05:23:36PM -0700, Peter J. Braam wrote: > > > boot: linux rootfstype=InterMezzo > > Good! > > [Four years ago I submitted a patch for the same boot parameter: > + * Added rootfstype= option: autodetection is unreliable, aeb, 960416 > Mount with autodetection is sometimes unreliable; people who need > absolutely reliable operation use mount -t. But at boot time the > kernel just guesses - very un-Unix-like.] > > Andries > > ----- > 2:34am up 1111 days, 15:23, 11 users, load average: 1.00, 1.00, 1.00 >
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