On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 12:02:15PM +0200, Wesley W. Terpstra wrote: > > It looks to me like the initrd doesn't even need to setup root, right? > The boot process will replace the entire kernel, it's modules, it's idea of > root, everything. This means we just have to get the linux kernel to the > point where it can read the saved image. > > Am I right about this so far?
Exactly. In fact, it would be advantageous to not touch root at all since modifying root before resuming may lead to serious data corruption. > If you agree with me so far, then what we really want to do in the initrd is > to either find root or find the swap device. Setting up encryption for one > is enough. Swsusp is controlled by a kernel-command-line option, so we > should check for the option and only if it is set, configure root. > > Agreed? Yep that sounds good. An easy solution in the interim is to disable swsusp if cryptoroot is present. > If so, I will update my patch and setup swsusp on my machine to test it. But of course that is what we want to do eventually. Cheers, -- Visit Openswan at http://www.openswan.org/ Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt
