| lists.openwall.net | lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC | |
|
Open Source and information security mailing list archives
| ||
|
Message-ID: <4E2423C4.6090906@msgid.tls.msk.ru> Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2011 16:15:00 +0400 From: Michael Tokarev <mjt@....msk.ru> To: Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org> CC: Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@...il.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kvm@...r.kernel.org, Avi Kivity <avi@...hat.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] init: Support mounting devices from kernel command line 18.07.2011 15:55, Pekka Enberg wrote: > On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 12:06 PM, Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@...il.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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
Powered by blists - more mailing lists