Re: mount other than rootfs problem

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

On 12.10.2011 11:03, Dave Young wrote:
> On 10/01/2011 03:03 AM, Vivek Goyal wrote:
> 
>> On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 02:38:39PM -0400, Vivek Goyal wrote:
>>> On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 11:40:12AM +0800, Dave Young wrote:
>>>
>>> [..]
>>>>
>>>> Add lvm_scan in mount-sys.sh also works, so if we can make lvm_scan
>>>> being called automaticlly via dependencies it will be good. OTOH fstab
>>>> is better than cmdlines as an interface for multi-target dumping
>>>
>>> Agreed that fstab.sys looks like a good interface to mouting non-root devices.
>>
>> Having said that, looks like dracut builds all the state using command
>> line options. All the lvms, iscsi root, fcoe targets etc. So they might
>> expect everything to be passed on command line. In that case it will
>> become hard from kdump perspective.
> 
> 
> There's file injection feature in dracut, if the kdump.conf params can
> move to cmdline params we can just inject /etc/cmdline instead of pass
> them to kexec
> 

I will add /etc/cmdline.d/ as a drop in for configs. This can also be used
easily for combined initramfs images.