Steve French <smfrench@xxxxxxxxx> writes: >> Or we could decide that cifs in initrd is not supported? > > Paulo had been experimenting with booting from cifs.ko (over SMB3.11 > mounts to Samba). > > Presumably since SMB3/SMB3.11 family of protocols is the most common > network file system across a pretty broad variety of operating systems > it is easier to imagine it being extended for special cases like > booting the OS (it is already very feature rich compared to most > network/cluster file system protocols and has exhaustive detailed > documentation). > > My gut reaction is that if cifs.ko (SMB3.11 mounts) don't work with > initrd ... we need to fix that even if it means minor protocol > extensions, but Paulo might have more data. I was able to boot a Leap 15 system from cifs.ko with changes in [1], so IMHO, it would probably make sense to support cifs in initrd as well -- though I haven't tested it myself. Thanks, Paulo [1] https://git.paulo.ac/linux.git/commit/?h=smb-boot
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