Adam J. Richter wrote:
> Werner Almesberger's support for unmounting the previous rooot
> partition is useful in a much broader variety of situations, and
> makes much less generally useful /linuxrc support unnecessary.
Very good point. Indeed, linking /linuxrc even more tightly to the
general initrd magic would make it harder to phase out the change_root
mechanism in the future.
> kernel. I think Werner's unmount-old-root support should be part of
> the standard kernel,
It's already there ;-) pivot_root was added in 2.3.41, January 2000.
And I think user-space support was added with util-linux-...h.
According to grep, arm m68k ppc don't have the pivot_root syscall yet,
though. (My patch had the syscall only for i386, because that's the
only architecture where I can test 2.3.x.)
> and the /linuxrc hack should be removed.
We'll have to keep /linuxrc and change_root for a while, because too
many people depend on them now. It would make sense to label them as
deprecated in 2.4, though.
- Werner
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