From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759238AbXFQD2g (ORCPT ); Sat, 16 Jun 2007 23:28:36 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753494AbXFQD21 (ORCPT ); Sat, 16 Jun 2007 23:28:27 -0400 Received: from smtp.ocgnet.org ([64.20.243.3]:51818 "EHLO smtp.ocgnet.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752608AbXFQD20 (ORCPT ); Sat, 16 Jun 2007 23:28:26 -0400 Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2007 12:26:56 +0900 From: Paul Mundt To: Andrew Morton Cc: David Howells , torvalds@linux-foundation.org, trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] NFS: Make NFS root work again Message-ID: <20070617032656.GB6922@linux-sh.org> Mail-Followup-To: Paul Mundt , Andrew Morton , David Howells , torvalds@linux-foundation.org, trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org References: <20070607164003.24322.51086.stgit@warthog.cambridge.redhat.com> <20070616091514.8e5dc1d3.akpm@linux-foundation.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070616091514.8e5dc1d3.akpm@linux-foundation.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat, Jun 16, 2007 at 09:15:14AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Thu, 07 Jun 2007 17:40:03 +0100 David Howells wrote: > > Make NFS root work by creating a "/root" directory to satisfy the mount, > > otherwise the path lookup for the mount fails with ENOENT. > > > > Am still awaiting a proper description of this patch, please. > > What is not working, and how does this patch fix it? > > I am unaware of any open bug reports against NFS root. I've not had any problems with it during any of the -rc periods, for what it's worth.