Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 14 Jun 1999 16:55:18 +0200 | From | Werner Almesberger <> | Subject | Re: initrd redesign (was Re: Partition nightmare Was: Migrating to larger numbers) |
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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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