From: Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>
To: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@gmail.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org,
Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] init: Support mounting devices from kernel command line
Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2011 16:15:00 +0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E2423C4.6090906@msgid.tls.msk.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAOJsxLG9h_L8x6-W67bMT1ObQKc=ZoLUKO8ocY4QQs=0rhw5ZQ@mail.gmail.com>
18.07.2011 15:55, Pekka Enberg wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 12:06 PM, Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@gmail.com> wrote:
>> This patch adds support to mounting devices using a kernel parameter.
>>
>> Such feature is usefull for virtual guests. It allows easily automating
>> mounts without having to change the base image (which can be read-only).
>>
>> In /tools/kvm we are interested in such feature to allow us to automatically
>> mount user home directory using virtio-9p from the host to the guest
>> filesystem under '/hostfs'.
Can't the same be done within initramfs just as easy?
Long time ago when initramfs first appeared the plan was to,
more or less, move all that mounting and root= handling
functionality to userspae, and here we're adding more
to kernel. To me that sounds backwards...
Thanks,
/mjt
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-07-18 12:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-07-18 9:06 [PATCH] init: Support mounting devices from kernel command line Sasha Levin
2011-07-18 11:55 ` Pekka Enberg
2011-07-18 12:15 ` Michael Tokarev [this message]
2011-07-18 12:27 ` Pekka Enberg
2011-07-18 19:44 ` James Bottomley
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