linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] init: Support mounting devices from kernel command line

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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
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