Re: ext3 IO latency measurements (was: Linux 2.6.29)

Linus Torvalds
2009-03-26T22:35:20Z

On Thu, 26 Mar 2009, Bill Nottingham wrote:
>
> Well, it's got to find the root fs options somewhere. Pulling them
> from the modified /etc/fstab in the root fs before you mount it, well...

Umm.

The _only_ sane thng to do is to mount the root read-only from initramfs,
and then re-mount it with the options in the /etc/fstab later when you
re-mount it read-write _anyway_ (which may possibly be immediately, of
course).

Anybody who thinks you should re-write initramfs for something like this
really hasn't spent a single second thinking about it.

Linus