[Libguestfs] [PATCH 1/3] febootstrap/helper/init: make sure /proc is mounted into chroot.

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Tue, Jun 07, 2011 at 06:04:42PM +0200, Hilko Bengen wrote:
> * Richard W.M. Jones:
> 
> >> It should be easy to implement this in a few mount(2)
> >> calls as part of febootstrap's /init. One could even use #ifdefs to cope
> >> with slightly different behavior across distributions.
> >
> > The problem is that we'll end up with complex conditional C code, when
> > really this is better and easier done in the shell script.  The code
> > will also be different for every distro.
> 
> Is a small size the only reason why you have written febootstrap's /init
> in C with as few external dependencies as possible?
> 
> Would you accept a patch that would make it possible to use the
> distribution's initrd creation tools (initramfs-tools, dracut,
> mkinitcpio) with febootstrap?

Yes, with a few privisos.  I hope you don't think these are too
onerous, but from a libguestfs point of view they are vital:

- It would have to work with Fedora (dracut) and Debian

- It would need to not slow down boot at all.  ie.
  'time guestfish -a /dev/null run' should not be affected

- It shouldn't make the boot any more risky/buggy than it is
  currently.  A low bar because our boot is already quite buggy,
  but let's not make things worse ...

Rich.

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