Messages in this thread | | | From | (H. Peter Anvin) | Subject | Re: Partition nightmare Was: Migrating to larger numbers | Date | 14 Jun 1999 04:26:24 GMT |
| |
Followup to: <01JC9S6LXMO2001ICW@rcum.uni-mb.si> By author: DAVID BALAZIC <david.balazic@uni-mb.si> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > Bradley M Keryan (keryan@andrew.cmu.edu) wrote : > > > On Thu, 10 Jun 1999, DAVID BALAZIC wrote: > > > > > > > > Many people discussed the problems with partition names, > > > like finding the correct partition , shifting partition IDs > > > when changing HW configuration , etc. > > > > > > I have s simple solution for that: > > > Use partition names. > > > > This is (at least on the PC) a userspace issue. > > Not really, because you can't mount root ( / ) from userspace :-) >
Actually you can; it's called initrd. Currently, of course, initrd uses this funny hybrid user space-kernel space scheme for remounting the root; I believe that should be changed so that you actually mount the new root in a standard fashion and pass the kernel a file descriptor to the new root.
-hpa -- "The user's computer downloads the ActiveX code and simulates a 'Blue Screen' crash, a generally benign event most users are familiar with and that would not necessarily arouse suspicions." -- Security exploit description on http://www.zks.net/p3/how.asp
- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
| |