Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] init: add root=PARTUUID=UUID+/-%d support | From | Valdis.Kletnieks@vt ... | Date | Thu, 02 Jun 2011 10:24:46 -0400 |
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On Thu, 02 Jun 2011 08:48:16 CDT, Will Drewry said:
> Good call! I'll take a pass at integrating that. I can see a couple > different ways of handling the parsing (e.g., when and what does it > affect). Do you think it would make sense to keep it isolated to just > being a PARTUUID subargument or would it make more sense for > PARTNROFF= to be evaluated as a generic root= attribute? I can see > benefits to both, but one is considerably more minimal to implement :) > [Maybe I'll try both and see how they look.]
I've seen multi-boot configs that have several disks similarly partitioned - a /boot on /dev/sdN1 and / on /dev/sdN2. For those configs, being able to say "use partition 2 of whatever disk you booted" would be one less thing you have to worry about getting out of sync.
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