On Fri, 9 Mar 2001, Alexander Viro wrote:
> On Fri, 9 Mar 2001, Mike Galbraith wrote:
>
> > I was generally exercising with 'what can I do wrong' scenarios when I
> > noticed some strangness. If you boot a ramdisk root with init=/bin/sh,
> > mount a drive, cd to it and exec chroot . /bin/sh and then mount proc,
> > proc/mounts shows /dev/root and the freshly mounted drive as both being
> > root. /dev/root must still be the ramdisk, as no pivot (or playing
> > with remount) had been done at that time.
> >
> > I don't know if it would show the same using two partitions or not,
> > nor if it's a problem.. certainly looks odd though.
>
> Why would it be a problem? /proc/mounts shows names in the context of
> process reading it. We could filter out stuff that happens to be
> outside of visible subtree, but that won't change anything.
Ok.
> Could somebody post the exact way to reproduce the problem? -o remount
> scenario is obvious, but that's a case of you get what you ask for.
> Anything else?
I only managed to kill two devices with one write once.. and I had to
work at it, so nope.
-Mike
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