On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 06:32:27PM +0200, you [Arjan van de Ven] wrote: > On Wed, 2005-08-17 at 11:52 -0400, Loris Santamaria wrote: > > What about a modular initrd, similar to what is fond in Debian? > > how about something slightly different... > > 2.6 kernel initrd's are cpio archives. And the kernelm supports catting > multiple of these together and the kernel then untars then one after > another... > > soo... all that's needed is having a /boot/initrd.local image that > mkinitrd always appends to the initrd it creates.. and inside that image > you can do what you want. > > And then maybe some tool to create that initrd.local from some dir or > something. [I think that was proposed in the thread I rudely revived from the grave. I think there was some uncertainty on whether it actually works, but I gather it *is* supposed to.] Yes, to me that sounds excellent. The baseline initrd init script would probably need some hooks to trigger the add-on functionality, but perhaps that much extra complexity can be tolerated? (Unless the add-on cpio always overwrites the original init script, but I don't think that's a maintanable solution.) -- v -- v@xxxxxx -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
