From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Harald Hoyer Subject: Re: Live module for root=nfs using Aufs Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2010 15:28:47 +0100 Message-ID: <4CDAAC1F.6060308@redhat.com> References: <4CD7B293.8050809@bfh.ch> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: initramfs-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: Jon Ander Hernandez Cc: initramfs-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, Seewer Philippe On 11/08/2010 08:03 PM, Jon Ander Hernandez wrote: > 2010/11/8 Seewer Philippe: > >> I just had a quick look over the patch and in itself it looks ok. Although >> I'm not sure if having the aufs at this stage is necessary. What if you just >> mount it later inside the rootfs? (Background: I'm using aufs overlays for >> our read only nfs-roots, and I just put the necessary aufs mounts inside >> fstab) > > I have to say that I haven't thought about it before.... It is really > a good idea, and is probably better than have a specific module. :-) > > But something that worries me, is if the init process will cause > problems, since we will be mounting a new root over the old one once > we have processes which have previously opened files on the old /. > > Regards, > > Jon Ander. So, do you still need this dracut module? Or is it good enough, to do this in the real root?