init observations

[Avi Kivity]

Chris Adams wrote:

>Once upon a time, Avi Kivity <avi at argo.co.il> said:
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>>It would be excellent if the glue code could be done in python:
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>Requiring /usr be available before starting anything is not going to
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We require /. We require initrd.

>>[there might be opposition to linking init with /usr/, but I consider it 
>>outdated. we have initrd to mount our filesystems today]
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>I don't really want to have to rebuild initrd anytime I change network
>settings and such (think network shared /usr).
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I'm sure we can arrange initrd to look at the command line. For example:

  mount=/=server1:/path/to/root,/usr=server2:/path/to/usr

IP can already be configured this way.

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