From: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
To: "Thomas Bächler" <thomas@archlinux.org>
Cc: Phillip Susi <psusi@ubuntu.com>, util-linux@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: pivot_root depreciated?
Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2014 10:17:59 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140131091759.GA10498@x2.net.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <52EA66CC.9070107@archlinux.org>
On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 03:50:52PM +0100, Thomas Bächler wrote:
> In particular, if systemd is used in the initramfs, it will do an
> equivalent to util-linux's switch_root, but it will use an internal
> reimplementation to be able to pass some internal state from the
> initrd's systemd to the system's systemd (which would be lost if systemd
> would exec an external binary other than systemd).
Just for the record, switch_root has been originally implemented by
dracut folks and then moved to util-linux. (I guess that dracut
without systemd still uses the original switch_root.)
Karel
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-01-31 9:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-01-29 15:04 pivot_root depreciated? Phillip Susi
2014-01-29 15:29 ` Dave Reisner
2014-01-30 8:16 ` Karel Zak
2014-01-30 14:15 ` Phillip Susi
2014-01-30 14:50 ` Thomas Bächler
2014-01-30 15:20 ` Phillip Susi
2014-01-30 16:13 ` Thomas Bächler
2014-02-03 10:31 ` Michal Soltys
2014-02-03 11:10 ` Kevin Wilson
2014-01-31 9:17 ` Karel Zak [this message]
2014-01-31 9:21 ` Thomas Bächler
2014-01-30 14:54 ` Dave Reisner
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