From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 13 Sep 2001 02:37:53 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 13 Sep 2001 02:37:43 -0400 Received: from h24-64-71-161.cg.shawcable.net ([24.64.71.161]:29936 "EHLO webber.adilger.int") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 13 Sep 2001 02:37:32 -0400 From: Andreas Dilger Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 00:37:38 -0600 To: Borsenkow Andrej Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: FW: [Cooker] rotflags and initrd Message-ID: <20010913003738.F1541@turbolinux.com> Mail-Followup-To: Borsenkow Andrej , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <000201c13c17$62c86860$21c9ca95@mow.siemens.ru> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <000201c13c17$62c86860$21c9ca95@mow.siemens.ru> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.20i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sep 13, 2001 09:46 +0400, Borsenkow Andrej wrote: > > Borsenkow Andrej writes: > > > If kernel mounts rootfs directly, you can pass mount options via > > > rootflags boot parameter, like > > > > > > linux rootflags=data=journal > > > > the "rootflags" kernel parameter is not documented in > > linux/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt and I can find it in the > > whole source only at one place. I'm not sure we should honour this. > > Just how "official" the parameter really is? The problem is, you want > root on reiser to be in notail mode (if you boot off root - in any case, > to avoid problems with bootloaders) and remounting reiser later AFAIK > does not change tail conversion mode. The rootflags parameter is only a part of the ext3 patch, AFAIK. It is therefore probably in -ac kernels, but not stock Linus kernels. Since it is useful by itself, it may be good to submit it as a patch to Linus (this was done once along with the rootfstype= patch) but I don't think it made it in. Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger \ "If a man ate a pound of pasta and a pound of antipasto, \ would they cancel out, leaving him still hungry?" http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/ -- Dogbert