Am 23.04.2012 17:17, schrieb Vivek Goyal: > On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 09:40:26AM +0200, Harald Hoyer wrote: > > [..] >> Just activate the host-only mode "--hostonly" or "-H" > > I tried -H but then it looks like it does not include modules required > to mount disks passed using "--mount" option. For example, I want to > mount a multipath target in initramfs but I don't see multipath module > being included. > > Following is dracut command line. > > dracut --add kdumpbase --add dash --add fstab-sys --add kernel-modules -c > /dev/null -I /sbin/makedumpfile --hostonly --mount '/dev/mapper/vg-lv_root / > ext4 rw,seclabel,relatime,user_xattr,barrier=1,data=ordered' --mount > '/dev/mapper/mpathb /mnt/common ext4 > rw,seclabel,relatime,user_xattr,barrier=1,data=ordered' -M -f > /boot/initramfs-3.3.2-1.fc17.x86_64kdump.img 3.3.2-1.fc17.x86_64 > > Notice, /dev/mapper/mpathb is the multipath device. > > Following is the list of modules included by dracut. > > ----------------- > i18n > rpmversion > plymouth > dm > kernel-modules > lvm > fstab-sys > resume > rootfs-block > terminfo > udev-rules > biosdevname > usrmount > base > fs-lib > kdumpbase > shutdown > ------------------- > > Notice it did not inclde "multipath" module. > > I passed the --debug option to dracut and attaching the resulting output. > I personally think that a new dracut option "--mount-only" might make > sense where only those modules are included which somehow contribute to > mounting of targets specified by "--mount". > > BTW, using --hostonly gave a nice redcution in initramfs size and my > uncomressed initramfs is around 18MB which sounds just right. > > Thanks > Vivek
oh.. multipath detection is not yet implemented for host-only... everything else should work, though -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe initramfs" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
