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    SubjectRe: initrd redesign (was Re: Partition nightmare Was: Migrating to larger numbers)
    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.

    > 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.

    - Werner

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