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On Wednesday November 23, rob@landley.net wrote: > On Tuesday 22 November 2005 20:07, Neil Brown wrote: > > Pivot_root seems to be broken in 2.6.15-rc1-mm2. > > > > I havea initramfs filesystem, mount a ext3 filesystem (which has /mnt) > > at '/root' and > > > > cd /root > > pivot . mnt > > > > and it says -EINVAL. > > You can't pivot_root initramfs because initramfs is rootfs. > > I wrote Documentation/filesystems/ramfs-rootfs-initramfs.txt just for this > occasion. :) Unfortunately, 'man pivot_root' nor 'use the source, Luke' contain pointers to this particular useful document. They both list assorted restrictions on pivot_root, but not this one. How about the following? Thanks, NeilBrown Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> ### Diffstat output ./fs/namespace.c | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff ./fs/namespace.c~current~ ./fs/namespace.c --- ./fs/namespace.c~current~ 2005-11-23 14:24:59.000000000 +1100 +++ ./fs/namespace.c 2005-11-24 16:07:01.000000000 +1100 @@ -1526,6 +1526,10 @@ static void chroot_fs_refs(struct nameid * pointed to by put_old must yield the same directory as new_root. No other * file system may be mounted on put_old. After all, new_root is a mountpoint. * + * Also, the current root cannot be on the 'rootfs' (initial ramfs) filesystem. + * See Documentation/filesystems/ramfs-rootfs-initramfs.txt for alternatives + * in this situation. + * * Notes: * - we don't move root/cwd if they are not at the root (reason: if something * cared enough to change them, it's probably wrong to force them elsewhere) - 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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