From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Harald Hoyer Subject: Re: mount other than rootfs problem Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2011 11:22:34 +0200 Message-ID: <4E955C5A.1010406@redhat.com> References: <4E83DE33.4020204@redhat.com> <4E848C48.6050506@redhat.com> <4E8526A6.30003@redhat.com> <4E85370A.7020509@redhat.com> <4E853A1C.5070905@redhat.com> <20110930183839.GF25891@redhat.com> <20110930190311.GH25891@redhat.com> <4E9557F2.2060209@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <4E9557F2.2060209-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org> Sender: initramfs-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Dave Young Cc: Vivek Goyal , Cong Wang , initramfs-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@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.