From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:56898) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eIwNr-0008Tc-LG for guix-patches@gnu.org; Sun, 26 Nov 2017 07:50:12 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eIwNm-0004yl-ND for guix-patches@gnu.org; Sun, 26 Nov 2017 07:50:07 -0500 Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.43]:49947) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eIwNm-0004yQ-In for guix-patches@gnu.org; Sun, 26 Nov 2017 07:50:02 -0500 Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1eIwNm-0005bU-5e for guix-patches@gnu.org; Sun, 26 Nov 2017 07:50:02 -0500 Subject: [bug#29409] [PATCH] vm: Use os-defined initrd intead of base-initrd. Resent-Message-ID: References: <877euhtjkj.fsf@gmail.com> <1511542178-13819-1-git-send-email-m.othacehe@gmail.com> <871skn8il1.fsf@gnu.org> From: Mathieu Othacehe In-reply-to: <871skn8il1.fsf@gnu.org> Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2017 13:49:48 +0100 Message-ID: <87mv3919xv.fsf@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-patches-bounces+kyle=kyleam.com@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-patches" To: Ludovic =?UTF-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?= Cc: 29409@debbugs.gnu.org Hey Ludo ! > A potential issue is that we don’t know whether the user-provided initrd > procedure honors #:volatile-root? et al. Maybe that’s not much of a > problem in practice: we can assume that it’s up to the user to do the > right thing. > > I’d say go for it and we’ll adjust if/when it’s a problem. > > Thoughts? Well i agree, it's true that this raw-initrd thing is a bit fragile but that's the only way for users to define handcrafted initrds. So i'll push but maybe we need to find something better than raw-initrd to cover this need. Thanks, Mathieu