* Al Viro (viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote: > On Tue, Sep 17, 2019 at 08:19:55PM +0200, Richard Weinberger wrote: > > > mtd, ubi, virtiofs and 9p have one thing in common, they are not block devices. > > What about a new miscroot= kernel parameter? > > How about something like xfs!sda5 or nfs!foo.local.net/bar, etc.? With > ubi et.al. covered by the same syntax... Would Stefan's patch work if there was just a way to test for non-block based fileystsmes and we replaced !strcmp(root_fs_names, "virtiofs") by not_block_based_fs(root_fs_names) Or is there some magic that the other filesystems do that's specific? Dave > _______________________________________________ > Virtio-fs mailing list > Virtio-fs@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/virtio-fs -- Dr. David Alan Gilbert / dgilbert@xxxxxxxxxx / Manchester, UK
