From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: util-linux-owner@vger.kernel.org Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:13811 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751006AbaAaJSF (ORCPT ); Fri, 31 Jan 2014 04:18:05 -0500 Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2014 10:17:59 +0100 From: Karel Zak To: Thomas =?iso-8859-1?Q?B=E4chler?= Cc: Phillip Susi , util-linux@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: pivot_root depreciated? Message-ID: <20140131091759.GA10498@x2.net.home> References: <52E91888.4080601@ubuntu.com> <20140130081651.GE22884@x2.net.home> <52EA5E6F.6040203@ubuntu.com> <52EA66CC.9070107@archlinux.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 In-Reply-To: <52EA66CC.9070107@archlinux.org> Sender: util-linux-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 03:50:52PM +0100, Thomas Bächler wrote: > In particular, if systemd is used in the initramfs, it will do an > equivalent to util-linux's switch_root, but it will use an internal > reimplementation to be able to pass some internal state from the > initrd's systemd to the system's systemd (which would be lost if systemd > would exec an external binary other than systemd). Just for the record, switch_root has been originally implemented by dracut folks and then moved to util-linux. (I guess that dracut without systemd still uses the original switch_root.) Karel -- Karel Zak http://karelzak.blogspot.com