Re: [dm-devel] [PATCH v6 0/3] dm: boot a mapped device without an initramfs

2017-05-04 Thread Alasdair G Kergon
Some more thoughts with your example, dmsetup might look like: # dmsetup create --bootformat "lroot:uuid,rw,0 2097152 linear 8:2 0, \ 2097152 2097152 linear 8:3 0, 4194304 2097152 linear 8:4 0" - also supporting creating multiple devices if the semi-colon is used - colon to separate name from

Re: [dm-devel] [PATCH v6 0/3] dm: boot a mapped device without an initramfs

2017-05-04 Thread Alasdair G Kergon
On Thu, May 04, 2017 at 01:18:41PM +0200, Enric Balletbo Serra wrote: > I'm wondering if a command line like this would be acceptable. 1) Make sure the implementation continues to support backslash quoting so that any characters you introduce with special meanings (comma, semi-colon, double-quote

Re: [dm-devel] [PATCH v6 0/3] dm: boot a mapped device without an initramfs

2017-05-04 Thread Enric Balletbo Serra
Mike, 2017-04-18 19:37 GMT+02:00 Kees Cook : > On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 9:42 AM, Enric Balletbo i Serra > wrote: >> Hello, >> >> Some of these patches were send few years back, I saw that first >> version was send to this list in 2010, and

Re: [PATCH v6 0/3] dm: boot a mapped device without an initramfs

2017-04-18 Thread Kees Cook
On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 9:42 AM, Enric Balletbo i Serra wrote: > Hello, > > Some of these patches were send few years back, I saw that first > version was send to this list in 2010, and after version 4 did not > land [1]. Some days ago I resend the patches [2] and

[PATCH v6 0/3] dm: boot a mapped device without an initramfs

2017-04-18 Thread Enric Balletbo i Serra
Hello, Some of these patches were send few years back, I saw that first version was send to this list in 2010, and after version 4 did not land [1]. Some days ago I resend the patches [2] and few hours later I noticed that one year ago was send a v5 version [3] and I was not aware. There was