On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 02:44:25PM +0100, Markus Pargmann wrote: > Adding support to nbd to use it as a root device. This code essentially > provides a minimal nbd-client implementation within the kernel. It opens > a socket and makes the negotiation with the server. Afterwards it passes > the socket to the normal nbd-code to handle the connection. > > The arguments for the server are passed via module parameter. The > module parameter has the format > '[<SERVER_IP>:]<SERVER_PORT>/<EXPORT_NAME>'. > SERVER_IP is optional. If it is not available it will use the > root_server_addr transmitted through DHCP. > > Based on those arguments, the connection to the server is established > and is connected to the nbd0 device. The rootdevice therefore is > root=/dev/nbd0.
Not that I'm opposed to this, but you do realize that doing nbd-client from initramfs or similar is possible, right? Most initramfs implementations these days support it. [...] -- It is easy to love a country that is famous for chocolate and beer -- Barack Obama, speaking in Brussels, Belgium, 2014-03-26 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
