From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [PATCH] NFS: Make NFS root work again Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2007 12:53:57 -0700 Message-ID: <20070607125357.be46bcff.akpm@linux-foundation.org> References: <20070607164003.24322.51086.stgit@warthog.cambridge.redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: torvalds@linux-foundation.org, trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org To: David Howells Return-path: Received: from smtp2.linux-foundation.org ([207.189.120.14]:58456 "EHLO smtp2.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933293AbXFGTyO (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Jun 2007 15:54:14 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20070607164003.24322.51086.stgit@warthog.cambridge.redhat.com> Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org On Thu, 07 Jun 2007 17:40:03 +0100 David Howells 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; >