linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH] Introduce a 'recovery' command line option

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Date:	Tue, 16 Aug 2016 09:04:56 +0200
From:	Richard Weinberger <richard.weinberger@...il.com>
To:	Janne Karhunen <Janne.Karhunen@...il.com>
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] Introduce a 'recovery' command line option

Hi!

On Tue, Aug 16, 2016 at 8:36 AM, Janne Karhunen
<Janne.Karhunen@...il.com> wrote:
> Recovery option can be used to define a secondary rootfs
> in case mounting of the primary root fails. This allows
> the kernel to automatically switch to a recovery
> filesystem without the initrd or the bootloader support
> for the switch.

Why are you moving this feature into the kernel?
To support such advanced features we have the initramfs.

dracut has already rootfallback=.

-- 
Thanks,
//richard