From: hpa@zytor.com (H. Peter Anvin)
To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Partitioned raid and major number
Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2004 00:36:15 +0000 (UTC) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <c20ktv$37o$1@terminus.zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20040301010419.GK14194@drinkel.cistron.nl
Followup to: <20040301010419.GK14194@drinkel.cistron.nl>
By author: Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.raid
>
> POSIX allows different semantics for / and //, I mentioned before that
> perhaps we should make "cd //" chdir to rootfs instead of /. Then
> you can also have //proc and //sys without explicitly mounting them.
> But I don't think the time has come for that yet (besides it needs
> more thought wrt namespaces, chroot etc).
>
It's allowed, but definitely not recommended.
I do like the idea of making rootfs remountable, though.
> > Another is to add "rootdev" to /proc/*, as in appended patch. Then
> > ln -s /proc/self/roodev /dev/root
> >
> > and providing /proc is mounted, /dev/root will work.
>
> I like that approach.
.. assuming the rootfs isn't a nodev filesystem.
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-03-02 0:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-02-25 14:56 Partitioned raid and major number Miquel van Smoorenburg
2004-02-25 18:46 ` H. Peter Anvin
2004-02-25 23:25 ` Neil Brown
2004-02-26 21:51 ` Miquel van Smoorenburg
2004-02-27 0:21 ` Neil Brown
2004-02-27 1:17 ` Neil Brown
2004-02-27 16:56 ` Miquel van Smoorenburg
2004-02-28 1:09 ` Miquel van Smoorenburg
2004-02-28 7:27 ` Luca Berra
2004-03-01 0:54 ` Neil Brown
2004-03-01 1:04 ` Miquel van Smoorenburg
2004-03-02 0:36 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2004-03-01 15:38 ` Miquel van Smoorenburg
2004-03-09 15:34 ` /dev/root (was: Re: Partitioned raid and major number) Miquel van Smoorenburg
2004-03-10 2:05 ` Neil Brown
2004-03-01 0:16 ` Partitioned raid and major number Neil Brown
2004-03-01 0:42 ` Miquel van Smoorenburg
2004-03-01 1:09 ` Neil Brown
2004-03-09 15:32 ` Creating partitionable raid on existing disk (was: Re: Partitioned raid and major number) Miquel van Smoorenburg
2004-03-10 2:41 ` Neil Brown
2004-03-09 16:46 ` Booting from partitioned raid, do_mounts_md.c patch " Miquel van Smoorenburg
2004-03-10 2:36 ` Neil Brown
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2004-02-26 23:01 Partitioned raid and major number Michael
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