Control: reassign -1 src:linux 3.6.9-1~experimental.1 On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 12:38:55AM +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote: > Control: reassign -1 initramfs-tools 0.109 > > On Tue, 2012-12-18 at 16:20 -0800, Josh Triplett wrote: > > Package: src:linux > > Version: 3.6.9-1~experimental.1 > > Severity: normal > > > > The virtio 9p filesystem uses a "mount tag" to distinguish between > > multiple filesystems provided to the guest. The host can provide these > > via the mount_tag=$NAME parameter to kvm's -virtfs option, and the guest > > supplies the mount tag as the device name to mount. This works fine for > > non-root filesystems. However, when attempting to use a virtio 9p > > filesystem as the root filesystem (with rootfstype=9p), the kernel > > ignores the "root=$NAME" option on the kernel command line, and always > > uses "/dev/root" as the mount tag. Making matters worse, kvm itself > > doesn't currently accept "/dev/root" as a mount tag, or anything else > > with a '/' in it (separate bug filed for that). Hacking kvm to accept > > /dev/root allows this to work, but the kernel really should use the name > > passed to the root= option as the mount tag. > [...] > > When using an initramfs, implementation of the 'root' kernel parameter > is the responsibility of the initramfs!
I'm not using an initramfs. The kernel supports 9p root filesystems without one, apart from using "/dev/root" as the mount tag instead of the value from the kernel command line. - Josh Triplett -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20121219025036.GA8435@leaf
