On Tue, 2009-06-02 at 18:15 +0200, Harald Hoyer wrote: > On 06/02/2009 06:10 PM, Harald Hoyer wrote: > > Because root=dhcp with root_path=iscsi:.. or root=iscsi:... would just > > add a harddisk to the system, we still might want a root=/dev/... to > > specify the path to the root partition. > > > > Or should we just mount the whole disk? If so, how do we detect the > > newly added disk after iscsistart? Do we add a udev rule to mount it? > > > > We might want to use the code from /lib/udev/path_id, which parses > > $full_sysfs_device_path and scans for */session[0-9]*/* > > or just try to mount everything /dev/disk/by-path/ip-*-lun-* I was thinking that for iscsi and nbd, we could allow a root=/dev/sda or root=LABEL=/something along with a netroot=iscsi.... or netroot=nbd to pull in the block devices, and then allow udev to mount them as they get added. Ie, allow re-use of the existing block rules. This would allow people to also do LVM and encrypted PVs on the networked block devices. We'd keep the root=iscsi*/nbd* stuff and default to either /dev/nbd0 or the LUN specified for iscsi. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe initramfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
