Re: [Patch] Cleanup struct gendisk registration, 2.3.40-pre1

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Alexander Viro wrote:
> We _can't_ do complete umount. init and libc alone will not let us do it
> (come to think of that, umount(8) may be a problem too ;-).

Wrong ;-) You could do that from an initrd. Or, if my umount-root patch
gets accepted, you could just (*) transition to a temporary root elsewhere
(e.g. a ramdisk), then back.

(* at least after spending some time moving that fsck to a more convenient
   place in the boot process :-)

- Werner

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