From: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
To: Richard Weinberger <richard.weinberger@gmail.com>
Cc: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>,
virtio-fs@redhat.com, Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>,
David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>,
linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] init/do_mounts.c: add virtiofs root fs support
Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2019 19:30:29 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190917183029.GH1131@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFLxGvw51qeifCLwhV-8DKXNwC9=_5hFf==e7h4YCvFE5_Wz0A@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, Sep 17, 2019 at 08:19:55PM +0200, Richard Weinberger wrote:
> mtd, ubi, virtiofs and 9p have one thing in common, they are not block devices.
> What about a new miscroot= kernel parameter?
How about something like xfs!sda5 or nfs!foo.local.net/bar, etc.? With
ubi et.al. covered by the same syntax...
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-09-17 18:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-09-06 10:03 [PATCH] init/do_mounts.c: add virtiofs root fs support Stefan Hajnoczi
2019-09-06 19:16 ` Richard Weinberger
2019-09-09 7:00 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2019-09-17 15:18 ` [Virtio-fs] " Stefan Hajnoczi
2019-09-17 18:19 ` Richard Weinberger
2019-09-17 18:30 ` Al Viro [this message]
2019-09-17 18:34 ` [Virtio-fs] " Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2019-09-18 10:51 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
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