Simplify booting from block devices #384
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I had an idea how to simplify booting from block devices. Since
init.krun
is a virtual file implemented in the virtiofspassthrough
module, we'd normally have to manually copy it to the device from which we want to boot and also adjust kernel cmdline to override the default root settings.Instead, if
krun_set_root()
was never called but there is a block device, we can still create a dummy rootfs just for executing init and then switch to the real root with a similar mechanism initramfs would use.This relies on setting
KRUN_BLOCK_ROOT
environment variable (internally) as well as reading/proc/filesystems
so we can implement the behavior ofmount -t auto
for the real root.I also added another custom ioctl which I use for cleaning up the temporary root when no longer needed.