Re: 13 NFS syntax variations

[Warren Togami <wtogami-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>]

On 06/22/2009 06:29 PM, David Dillow wrote:
>> 3) Support it but print deprecation warnings like Legacy nfsroot.txt.
>
> This would be my choice; the DHCP (BOOTP) root-path=[server:]/root-path
> formats have been around for decades. I seem to recall network booting a
> SunOS 4.1.2 box using that back in 1993, and I'll bet it wasn't a new
> feature then.
>
> Some changes I'm thinking about would benefit from dropping the non nfs:
> formats, as they wouldn't have a clean home otherwise, but I don't think
> that is a good reason to drop them -- they are too easy to support.

root=<server-ip>:/path:nfs-options

Yes, I am aware it has existed for decades.  However neither Red Hat nor 
Debian's tools supported this method.[1]  This seems to make it a good 
candidate for chopping.

Harald, what do you think?

[1]
mkinitrd supports it only partially, without nfs-options, and without a 
method to auto-load network drivers prior to NFS, meaning nobody used it.

Warren Togami
wtogami-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org
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