mkinitrd unification across distributions
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Seewer Philippe <philippe.seewer-omB+W0Dpw2o@public.gmane.org>
To: Warren Togami <wtogami-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
Cc: initramfs <initramfs-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org>
Subject: Re: NFS cleaned up, one TODO
Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2009 18:04:11 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A4B88FB.1030605@bfh.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4A4A923E.5020406-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>

Warren Togami wrote:
> The following are now the valid syntaxes for NFS.
> 
> root=[<server-ip>:]<root-dir>[:<nfs-options>]
> root=nfs:[<server-ip>:]<root-dir>[:<nfs-options>]
> root=nfs4:[<server-ip>:]<root-dir>[:<nfs-options>]
> root=dhcp
>     root-path=<server-ip>:<root-dir>[,<nfs-options>]
>     root-path=nfs:<server-ip>:<root-dir>[,<nfs-options>]
>     root-path=nfs4:<server-ip>:<root-dir>[,<nfs-options>]
> root=/dev/nfs [nfsroot=...]
> 
> TODO:
> I managed to fix the root=/dev/nfs case that specifies nfsroot=, but I 
> don't understand why it doesn't work if you lack nfsroot=.  Two NFS 
> tests are commenteed out until that is fixed.  Any ideas?

The Problem is here:

# LEGACY convert root=<server-ip>:/<path
case "$netroot" in
    [0-9]*:/*|[0-9]*\.[0-9]*\.[0-9]*[!:]|/*)
       netroot=nfs:$netroot;;
esac

After this part netroot looks like "netroot=nfs:/dev/nfs" if
root=/dev/nfs. This is later interpreted as path.

Patch below fixes this.

diff --git a/modules.d/95nfs/parse-nfsroot.sh b/modules.d/95nfs/parse-nfsroot.sh
index f05fb2a..9e41335 100755
--- a/modules.d/95nfs/parse-nfsroot.sh
+++ b/modules.d/95nfs/parse-nfsroot.sh
@@ -95,6 +95,7 @@ fi
 
 # LEGACY convert root=<server-ip>:/<path
 case "$netroot" in
+    /dev/nfs) netroot=nfs;;
     [0-9]*:/*|[0-9]*\.[0-9]*\.[0-9]*[!:]|/*)
        netroot=nfs:$netroot;;
 esac
diff --git a/test/TEST-20-NFS/test.sh b/test/TEST-20-NFS/test.sh



 /dev/nfs)netroot=nfs;; 




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

      parent reply	other threads:[~2009-07-01 16:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-06-30 22:31 NFS cleaned up, one TODO Warren Togami
     [not found] ` <4A4A923E.5020406-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2009-07-01 16:04   ` Seewer Philippe [this message]

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=4A4B88FB.1030605@bfh.ch \
    --to=philippe.seewer-omb+w0dpw2o@public.gmane.org \
    --cc=initramfs-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org \
    --cc=wtogami-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox