From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: 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
Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2007 12:53:57 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070607125357.be46bcff.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070607164003.24322.51086.stgit@warthog.cambridge.redhat.com>
On Thu, 07 Jun 2007 17:40:03 +0100
David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> wrote:
> Make NFS root work by creating a "/root" directory to satisfy the mount,
> otherwise the path lookup for the mount fails with ENOENT.
>
What did we do to make it stop working, and when did we do it??
>
> diff --git a/init/do_mounts.c b/init/do_mounts.c
> index 46fe407..967b852 100644
> --- a/init/do_mounts.c
> +++ b/init/do_mounts.c
> @@ -270,7 +270,10 @@ static void __init get_fs_names(char *page)
>
> static int __init do_mount_root(char *name, char *fs, int flags, void *data)
> {
> - int err = sys_mount(name, "/root", fs, flags, data);
> + int err;
> +
> + sys_mkdir("/root", 0755);
> + err = sys_mount(name, "/root", fs, flags, data);
> if (err)
> return err;
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-06-07 19:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-06-07 16:40 [PATCH] NFS: Make NFS root work again David Howells
2007-06-07 17:56 ` Peter Staubach
2007-06-07 19:53 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2007-06-16 16:15 ` Andrew Morton
2007-06-16 16:47 ` Trond Myklebust
2007-06-17 3:26 ` Paul Mundt
2007-06-17 18:44 ` Andi Kleen
2007-06-18 11:09 ` David Howells
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