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| author | torben | 2016-03-11 11:30:09 +0100 |
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| committer | torben | 2016-03-11 11:30:09 +0100 |
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diff --git a/builder/readme.md b/builder/readme.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..113d30c2 --- /dev/null +++ b/builder/readme.md @@ -0,0 +1,21 @@ +This subfolder is dedicated to dracut related files. + +The folder 'dnbd3-rootfs' is a dracut module used to setup +a client's rootfs based on a (read-only) dnbd3 export made writable +through the kernel device mapper features. + +To use this module within dracut, you simply need to copy/link/mount +the above mentioned folder to '/usr/lib/dracut/modules.d' prefixed +with a numerical priority. We used '90' so far, so the module was linked +to '/usr/lib/dracut/modules.d/90dnbd3-rootfs'. + +Once the module has been integrated in dracut's modules, you can build +the initramfs with the following command: + + dracut --no-hostonly --modules "dnbd3-rootfs" <target_path> + +Note that the '--no-hostonly' is critical if the machine dracut is +executed on and the clients supposed to boot the resulting initramfs +differ. + +For more informations see: https://lab.ks.uni-freiburg.de/projects/dracut-praktikum/wiki |