Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 15 Jun 1999 01:27:27 +0200 | From | Werner Almesberger <> | Subject | Re: initrd redesign (was Re: Partition nightmare Was: Migrating to larger numbers) |
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Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > Well I still have the diffs for when I did this in an 1.1.x kernel > [I think, since the patch is dated 30 Mar 1995 ;)] by overloading chroot() > for init. See ftp://ftp.cistron.nl/pub/people/miquels/kernel/Old/new_root_diffs
In some way, it's a little more general than the current thing, but then there's still a lot of special-casing (e.g. pid == 1), and it seems to assume that the old root is no longer referenced, which doesn't necessarily have to be true. You can actually get that case quite easily if you're lazy (e.g. my Psion happily boots with initrd kept busy by a loop device), or if you're doing something complex in initrd, e.g. running some demons.
Not that I'm particularly proud of "put_old" in change_root, but it allows such cases to function. What I'd expect from an approach using mount point relocation is to get rid of hard-coded things like /initrd and, worse, /dev/root.old. Also allowing a name different from /linuxrc would be nice.
- Werner
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