-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 1 Nov 2005 23:08:38 +0100 Erik van Konijnenburg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Please find attached a patch to do > * absent options in fstab > * multiple fstypes: ext2,ext3 > * auto fstype. Thanks alot! > We could use blkid to verify the fstype even if it's given explicitly > in /etc/fstab, then do an error message if there's no match so the > image would not boot. Somehow I get the impression that's an > improvement that would not be much appreciated today ... I would actually appreciate such additional checking. It goes well with the fundamental logic of yaird: Do its best at build time to make sure a ramdisk is working properly. The current noise is partly due to the change of ramdisk tools not being announced and happening automatic in most cases (thanks to clever packaging changes of the newest kernels), I believe: When features that used to work with initrd-tools (even if special corner cases) suddently does not work with yaird, it comes as a surprise. I think that getting more relaxed on the error checking is a wrong approach: Good analysis at ramdisk build time is in my opinion a strong feature of yaird. What I would want is the default as strict as at all possible. It would be _very_ useful for Debian, however, to have a --relaxed option that tries to simulate initrd-tools behaviour: * does not use /sys * turns (some) errors into non-fatal warnings * generously include lots of modules, ignoring errors loading them This, I believe, would make it possible to generate a 2.6 kernel on a 2.4 host, and at the same time make some kinds of changing hardware possible. A kernel install could then be improved to create _both_ a strict and a relaxed ramdisk, with the relaxed one as a fallback (and if the strict image creation failed the relaxed one could be offered as default instead - allowing the user to take a chance). - 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) iD8DBQFDZ/4Kn7DbMsAkQLgRAp3LAKCJCyeQ643pLKcdiHSV4nVBxv9AcACfQfjE xXh9nDhYLPta5QoqAmUXXhg= =Qd3S -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
