From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Harald Hoyer Subject: Re: dracut and multiple iscsi/network disks Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 10:19:48 +0200 Message-ID: <4C10A024.80802@redhat.com> References: <4C0FB779.30005@redhat.com> <20100610070647.GA23726@maude.comedia.it> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20100610070647.GA23726-hdG+WfPrfN2JmafXlB/IVQ@public.gmane.org> Sender: initramfs-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: initramfs-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org On 06/10/2010 09:06 AM, Luca Berra wrote: > On Wed, Jun 09, 2010 at 05:47:05PM +0200, Harald Hoyer wrote: >> http://dracut.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=dracut/dracut;a=commitdiff;h=169f16715145fd087d61ef7fdfd7e9a3cbb68fc9 >> >> >> adds support for multiple iscsi disks with the syntax: >> >> root= \ >> netroot=iscsi:... netroot=iscsi:... netroot=iscsi:... >> >> which is suboptimal, because you can't specify it in the dhcp protocol. >> >> A better syntax would be a single netroot (also for FCoE disk) >> something like: >> >> netroot=netdisks:iscsi:...[separator]iscsi:...[separator]fcoe:... >> > be warned that DHCP option format is generally > code: 1 byte > lenght: 1 byte > data: lenght bytes > > which would limit the lenght of the netroot string to 255 charachters > anyway. > > L. > 255 chars can be sufficient for up to 4 disks