Bug#392073: doesn't support unsupported filesystems :)

[maximilian attems <maks@sternwelten.at>]

reassign 392073 klibc-utils
severity 392073 wishlist
retitle 392073 fstype add reiser4 support
stop

hello charles,

On Mon, 09 Oct 2006, Charles Samuels wrote:

> Package: initramfs-tools
> Version: 0.80
> 
> I compiled a fresh new kernel, and set my root partition to reiser4:
> 
> in this line:
>   mount -r -t unknown /dev/md1 /root
> if I change it to the following on the "no root fs" command line prompt in the 
> initrd:
>   mount -r -t reiser4 /dev/md1 /root
> 
> So it specify nothing at all instead of "-t unknown" and render my machine 
> with no unbootable (or specify -t auto)
> 
> charles

no,
just pass your fancy_fs with rootfstype=fancy_fs bootarg -
documented in man initramfs-tools(8).
this bootarg is supported since 0.76 and official in linux
source Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt.

reassigning to fstype (klibc-utils), which indeed lacks reiser4 support.

regards

-- 
maks