On 06/23/2009 06:15 AM, Warren Togami wrote:
On 06/22/2009 06:29 PM, David Dillow wrote:
3) Support it but print deprecation warnings like Legacy nfsroot.txt.
This would be my choice; the DHCP (BOOTP) root-path=[server:]/root-path
formats have been around for decades. I seem to recall network booting a
SunOS 4.1.2 box using that back in 1993, and I'll bet it wasn't a new
feature then.
Some changes I'm thinking about would benefit from dropping the non nfs:
formats, as they wouldn't have a clean home otherwise, but I don't think
that is a good reason to drop them -- they are too easy to support.
root=<server-ip>:/path:nfs-options
Yes, I am aware it has existed for decades. However neither Red Hat nor
Debian's tools supported this method.[1] This seems to make it a good
candidate for chopping.
Harald, what do you think?
root=<server-ip>:/path
should stay.
Adding the options was just the next logical step, be it with ":" or ","
[1]
mkinitrd supports it only partially, without nfs-options, and without a
method to auto-load network drivers prior to NFS, meaning nobody used it.
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