Re: The reason to call it 3.0 is the desktop (was Re: [OT] 2.6 not 3.0 - (NUMA)) (fwd)

From: Hans Reiser (reiser@namesys.com)
Date: Sun Oct 13 2002 - 21:42:01 EST


Alexander Viro wrote:

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>>Logically, the second /var mount should be "mount --move /initrd/var /var",
>>followed by "umount /initrd" to free up the initrd memory. Right now it's
>>doing "mount -n --bind /initrd/var /var", because /etc is a symlink into /var
>>(has to remain editable, you see), and this way the information about which
>>partition var actually is can be kept in one place. (This is an
>>implementation detail: I could have used volume labels instead.)
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>>The point is, right now I can't free the initial ramdisk because it has an
>>active mount point under it..
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>umount -l
>mount --move
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It seems Linux evolves faster than I can track. These are nice features.:)

Hans

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