From: Marc-Christian Petersen <m.c.p@wolk-project.de>
Organization: Working Overloaded Linux Kernel
To: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@conectiva.com.br>,
       Herbert =?iso-8859-1?q?P=F6tzl?= <herbert@13thfloor.at>
Subject: Re: ROOT NFS fixes ...
Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2003 16:20:26 +0200
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On Wednesday 30 July 2003 15:57, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:

Hi Marcelo, Herbert,

> > just verified that the NFS root bug-fix was not
> > included in 2.4.22-pre9, unfortunately I have
> > to ask you again, why you do not want to fix
> > this issue in 2.4.22 ...
> > I do not understand why Trond obviously is
> > ignoring my mails, regarding this particular
> > issue, maybe he is just too busy to look at
> > four twoline changes, and more, I do not
> > understand why this isn't accepted into the
> > marcelo kernel tree, as it obviously fixes a
> > misbehaviour?

> I do not consider the patch critical enough.
> Get it in 2.5 first, then come back :)
err, correct me if I am totally wrong here but does "ROOT NFS fixes" means 
somewhat like

append="nfsroot=10.0.0.7:/home/nfsroot \
    ip=10.0.0.254:10.0.0.7:10.0.0.7:255.255.255.0:temp:eth0:off root=/dev/nfs"

does not work w/o the fix?

ciao, Marc

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