Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 14 Jun 1999 18:08:13 +0200 | From | Matthew Wilcox <> | Subject | Re: initrd redesign (was Re: Partition nightmare Was: Migrating to larger numbers) |
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On Mon, Jun 14, 1999 at 04:55:18PM +0200, Werner Almesberger wrote: > Matthew Wilcox wrote: > > The patch that exists on my website has the problem that it > > does not allow the remounting of filesystems that do not have a device > > associated with them. > > No problem - with something like /proc/mount-devs (see my previous > posting), one can easily look up or temporarily create the corresponding > device file, including all the "unnamed" ones. LILO has code for > obtaining a device by its number.
it's worse than that, I'm afraid. With my patch applied, mount -o remount server:/path
no longer works, which is why we decided we had to introduce a new flag.
> > The current proposed solution introduces a new flag, MS_MOVE which > > indicates that the filesystem should be moved to a new mountpoint. > > I guess I would just have reused MS_REMOUNT to avoid forcing a mount > update, but MS_MOVE is probably cleaner, considering that you can > create somewhat obscure configuration problems this way.
I'd love to not have to use another bit, but the problems seem impossible to overcome.
-- Matthew Wilcox <willy@bofh.ai> "Windows and MacOS are products, contrived by engineers in the service of specific companies. Unix, by contrast, is not so much a product as it is a painstakingly compiled oral history of the hacker subculture." - N Stephenson
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