On Thu, 5 Nov 2015, Christian Seiler wrote: > Yes, this seems like a good idea for something to support. I see a > minor implementation detail that might need some thinking to fix: > currently, open-iscsi only adds itself to the initramfs if > /etc/iscsi/initramfs.iscsi exists - and the information in there > would be replaced by the root= parameter. On the other hand, > unconditionally adding the iSCSI binaries to the initramfs might > also not be wanted behavior, because it makes the initramfs larger. > (iSCSI can also be used for non-root filesystems.)
Other than size, iscsi is to my memory almost perfectly inert in the initramfs if it doesnt find any cmdline that says for it to do something. (iscsi_target_name= or iscsi_auto) So my feeling is if the user installs open-iscsi, then they want it in the initramfs. Do that unless they turn it off.
