From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Vladislav Bogdanov Subject: Re: [PATCH] add fake root support Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2010 09:54:48 +0200 Message-ID: <4CDCF2C8.8010901@hoster-ok.com> References: <4CBDB007.4090802@hoster-ok.com> <4CCECBB0.3030609@hoster-ok.com> <4CDAAA70.1070302@redhat.com> 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" To: initramfs-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org 10.11.2010 18:09, Jon Ander Hernandez wrote: ... >> Which reminds me, that we should probably have the possibility to >> concatenate several stages. >> >> root=nfs:xxx.yyy.zzz.www:/mnt|loop:test.img|live:blablabla >> >> comments? > > I like this idea, it would be really useful. > > But wouldn't this require some kind of union mount? I ask this because > I have read Vladislav's patch, but I've been able to figure out how it > sets/links the writable overlay. I'm missing something? BTW I have a patch which skips writable overlay in liveimg completely if 'readonlyroot' is set in cmdline. Will send it later when I port it to a git. > > And if that is the case, I suppose that dracut will have to support > different kind of union mount (unionfs, aufs, ...) till Valerie's > Union Mount gets pushed into the kernel. Or could something be > archived only using COW? > > Regards, > > Jon Ander. > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe initramfs" in > the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html