From: Harald Hoyer <harald-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
To: initramfs-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org
Subject: Re: dracut and multiple iscsi/network disks
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 10:19:48 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C10A024.80802@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100610070647.GA23726-hdG+WfPrfN2JmafXlB/IVQ@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=<normal block path or UUID or LABEL> \
>> 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
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-06-09 15:47 dracut and multiple iscsi/network disks Harald Hoyer
[not found] ` <4C0FB779.30005-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2010-06-10 7:06 ` Luca Berra
[not found] ` <20100610070647.GA23726-hdG+WfPrfN2JmafXlB/IVQ@public.gmane.org>
2010-06-10 8:19 ` Harald Hoyer [this message]
2010-06-11 6:06 ` Hans de Goede
[not found] ` <4C11D27C.3020807-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2010-06-11 10:40 ` Harald Hoyer
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