Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Failover root devices | From | Richard Weinberger <> | Date | Thu, 17 Sep 2015 20:17:28 +0200 |
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Am 17.09.2015 um 20:05 schrieb Drew DeVault: >> Better send a patch to dracut folks. :-) >> Major distros use it and if the feature is nice other initramfs implementations will adopt it too. > > dracut is the common one sure, but I'm still not confident that it's the right place to put this. How would that feature look? Would we have the root= parameter use a format that's > specific to dracut and no longer a sane kernel parameter? Would we use a second parameter and discard the root= parameter? I think all of these are suboptimal solutions. No, the > right way, I think, is to implement this in the kernel and let the init systems take it from there themselves.
I'd patch dracut to support kernel command lines like "root=/dev/diskX root=/dev/diskY". initramfs is allowed to parse/use the command line. So, you can do what you want.
Thanks, //richard
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