Messages in this thread | | | From | (Miquel van Smoorenburg) | Subject | Re: initrd [was: Linux-2.1.92 - Feature Freeze] | Date | 4 Apr 1998 16:20:38 +0200 |
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In article <6g4c2r$jii$1@palladium.transmeta.com>, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@transmeta.com> wrote: >Why is that? initrd is an excellent and very general mechanism. >There seems to be a lot of resistance to using it; unfortunately I
It's too complicated. Why is there no system call to change the root-fs on the fly instead?
I actually overloaded chroot() to do this somewhere around 1.1.x, and built a single-floppy Linux system that once booted remounted it's root filesystem from an NFS server. So it is proven that it works.
With just a change-root system call, initrd and nfsroot aren't needed..
(See ftp:/ftp.cistron.nl//pub/people/miquels/kernel/Old/new_root_diffs)
Mike. -- Miquel van Smoorenburg | Our vision is to speed up time, miquels@cistron.nl | eventually eliminating it.
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