Messages in this thread | | | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: Kernel setup() | Date | 12 Mar 2003 08:24:36 -0800 |
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Followup to: <Pine.GHP.4.53.0303120915340.16277@alderaan.science-computing.de> By author: Oliver Tennert <tennert@science-computing.de> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > My question is: is pivot_root deprecated by now? I just am quite dazzled > and want to know how to __cleanly__ handle the mounting of a new root > device. >
pivot_root() is the currently preferred method. Depending on where the initramfs is by the time Linux 2.6 comes out it may be replaced by then, but for 2.4, pivot_root() is the way to go.
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