On 09.12.2023 17:42, Eric Curtin wrote:
On Sat, 9 Dec 2023 at 12:46, Luca Boccassi <bluca@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Fri, 8 Dec 2023 at 19:00, Eric Curtin <ecurtin@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
We have been working on a new initial filesystem called initoverlayfs.
It is a new filesystem that provides a more scalable approach to
initial filesystems as opposed to just using initrds. We are writing
this RFC to the systemd and dracut mailing lists (feel free to forward
to UAPI group also) because although this solution works without
changing the code in these projects, it operates in the same area as
systemd, udev, dracut, etc. and uses these tools.
It seems to me everything you described already exists? If you want to
avoid having an initrd -> rootfs transition, you can already do that -
You need a initrd -> rootfs transition for generic linux operating
systems right?
No, you do not. Nothing stops you from running off initramfs (today you
do not really have init*RAM Disk* - the content of initrd is unpacked
into initramfs.
Or else you start building all sorts of things directly
into the kernel which isn't really scalable.
See above.
