Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 23 Nov 2005 02:15:45 +0000 | From | Al Viro <> | Subject | Re: pivot_root broken in 2.6.15-rc1-mm2 |
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On Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 01:07:28PM +1100, Neil Brown wrote: > After putting in copious tracing printk, the offending test is: > > if (user_nd.mnt->mnt_parent == user_nd.mnt) > goto out2; /* not attached */ > > If I remove this, it works (or seems to). > Presumably the initial root file system is 'not attached'. But that > shouldn't be a problem, should it?
Initial root is root and will remain root, period.
> Could this be related to the new shared mounts stuff???
No. And no, it's not going to change - any memory you win on killing initramfs is not going to be worth the extra code needed to special-case it.
pivot_root() does work in chroot jail (including the one we get after chrooting to "final" root), but that's all it does. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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