Re: [uml-devel] When /tmp is not tmpfs.

[Nix <nix@esperi.org.uk>]

On Sun, 27 Nov 2005, blaisorblade@yahoo.it whispered secretively:
> Plus, for deep troubleshooting (mainly for kernels) init=/bin/sh is useful.

init=/bin/busybox/sh is also useful for those cases when you've futzed
your libc. :)

>> > No - the kernel doesn't allow storing the full set of infos which are
>> > added by mount there. And frankly I don't want the kernel to do that.
> 
>> Why not? It should. Only root can call mount(), so there's no real
>> danger that some attacker will stick megabytes of stuff in there.
> 
> Yep, but I don't like the kernel to become a configuration repository... it's 
> conceptually similar to the in-kernel Win32 registry (though it's smaller, 
> yep).

Well, except that it's just storing, er, data about mount points. It
*already* has to store that!

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