[ENBD] diskless enbd-client/enbd on initrd

[Peter T. Breuer]

"Also sprach Rudolph Bott:"
> does anyone have experience with enbd-client on an initrd?

Never ... I suppose it would be possible, but difficult, since a bit of
userspace needs to be set up ... how do you chroot while the client is
still running on the old root?


> Loading enbd module...
> exec: Success
> Starting enbd-client...
> enbd-client   572: client says target 0 is 172.16.20.1:1111
> mount: No such device or address
> pivot_root: Device or resource busy

Errrr yes. My question exactly.

> Failed to start init :(
> Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!

Peter