Re: 13 NFS syntax variations

[Harald Hoyer <harald-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>]

On 06/23/2009 06:15 AM, Warren Togami wrote:
> 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?

root=<server-ip>:/path

should stay.
Adding the options was just the next logical step, be it with ":" or ","

>
> [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.
>
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