From: Pascal Schmidt <der.eremit@email.de>
To: David Bryson <david@tsumego.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: circular pivot_root, is this possible ?
Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2004 17:11:26 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1AyCUQ-00004T-N0@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1v7Zf-5EG-5@gated-at.bofh.it>
On Tue, 02 Mar 2004 03:40:09 +0100, you wrote in linux.kernel:
> Say the system needs an upgrade.... I want to
>
> 1) pivot_root _back out_ of the tmpfs, onto the initrd again
> 2) obtain via network a new sys.img, write it to the flash
> 3) wipe tmpfs, and recopy the contents of the new sys.img into memory
> 4) pivot_root back into the tmpfs and start the higher level system
> again
How about using a second, small tmpfs for / under/over which the tmpfs
for the full system can be mounted and umounted at will?
--
Ciao,
Pascal
next parent reply other threads:[~2004-03-02 16:11 UTC|newest]
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2004-03-02 16:11 ` Pascal Schmidt [this message]
2004-03-02 18:47 ` circular pivot_root, is this possible ? David Bryson
2004-03-02 2:30 David Bryson
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