-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, 26 Nov 2005 08:42:12 +0100 Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 25, 2005 at 11:58:09PM +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > On Fri, 25 Nov 2005 21:48:52 +0100 > > Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > On Fri, Nov 25, 2005 at 08:44:38PM +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > > > > > So, all in all: I agree this is not great, but disagree that the > > > > goal of yaird must be to behave exactly like initrd-tools. > > > > > > Well, i kind of disagree, if the user provides a root= argument, > > > then he probably knows what he does, and if he is wrong, then too > > > bad for him, but chances are good that he knows what he was > > > doing :) > > > > So what is our disagreement? > > Mmm, i am confused now, from my understanding i gather that yaird > right now doesn't respect the root= argument when explicitly given, > and altough you find this problematic, you judge it a minor issue. I > (and Martin) argue that it is an important feature to be able to > override yaird by setting a root= argument. Important if not > critical, as asking people to boot into d-i and do hand-stuff to make > it work is hardly nice. > > So, our disagreement is mostly in the priority of this. Thanks for the clarification. It does seem from a later posting, however, that your view is not necessarily shared with Martin. Correct: I acknowledge that the behaviour of yaird may come as a surprise to many, and that it is inconvenient for some kinds of operations, but judge that not as a "bug", but a design decision. > Notice, that one solution would be for yaird to generate a > rescue-initramfs which contains itself and all that is needed to run > it (mount /sys, include perl and co, etc) and then regenerate the > minimal ramdisk, altough this would mostly amount to having a > initramfs-tools-like tool. If it is a bug to not behave in all areas like (intended for) initrd-tools, then there is really no sense in making yaird at all: Next compliant will be (and have already been, if I recall correctly) that yaird does not support extending by the use of shell snippets. Initrd-tools and yaird and initramfs-tools share a common goal of creating an initial ramdisk for kernel bootup processes. Lots of other goals they do not share. - Jonas - -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist og Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ - Enden er nær: http://www.shibumi.org/eoti.htm -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDiBjpn7DbMsAkQLgRAkagAJ9LR4U2yEBvYU1HNmRdLb9Elq/XNQCZAST1 E3ZebvYrkyHU4dxGnzTtYG0= =wATB -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----