Bug 214721 - initrd(4) man-page lacks information for kernel behaviour if linuxrc mounted an fs
Summary: initrd(4) man-page lacks information for kernel behaviour if linuxrc mounted ...
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: Documentation
Classification: Unclassified
Component: man-pages (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: P1 normal
Assignee: documentation_man-pages@kernel-bugs.osdl.org
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Reported: 2021-10-14 14:18 UTC by Mikhail Paremski
Modified: 2021-10-22 08:16 UTC (History)
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Description Mikhail Paremski 2021-10-14 14:18:25 UTC 
Where:
https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man4/initrd.4.html
Section: Boot-up operation
Part: 6.
-AND-
Section: NOTES

-OR-
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/docs/man-pages/man-pages.git/tree/man4/initrd.4
lines: 138-141
-AND-
lines: 441-474

What:
initrd(4), Section Boot-up operation, part 6. (lines 138-141) says:
"
If /linuxrc is not executed or when /linuxrc terminates, the
          normal root filesystem is mounted.  (If /linuxrc exits with
          any filesystems mounted on the initial root filesystem, then
          the behavior of the kernel is UNSPECIFIED.  See the NOTES
          section for the current kernel behavior.)
"
However, the NOTES section (lines 441-474):
Does NOT contain "current kernel behavior" if "/linuxrc exits with any filesystems mounted on the initial root filesystem".

Proposed solution:
Add a description of the current kernel behavior, when /linuxrc exits with any filesystems mounted on the initial root filesystem.
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