Re: [PATCH 15/39] NLKD - early pseudo-fs

[Al Viro]

On Wed, Nov 09, 2005 at 03:09:54PM +0100, Jan Beulich wrote:
> While for limited amounts of configuration information the kernel
> command line may be suitable, it isn't when it comes to significant
> amounts of configurable entities that need to be set before the full
> kernel infrastructure is available. This patch adds functionality to
> pass one or more configuration files through the initrd, but without
> requiring knowledge of the actual structure (including compression) of
> it; the file(s) is/are attached to the end of the already built
> initrd (which obviously depends on external scripts not provided
> here).

What the hell for?  We _already_ have a way to get any set of files in
a filesystem as soon as we have VFS caches set up (and until then you
can't open anything anyway).

NAK.
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