Re: [PATCH] root-hopping for pre-2.3.41-3

From: H. Peter Anvin (hpa@transmeta.com)
Date: Wed Jan 26 2000 - 19:26:11 EST


Followup to: <20000126172355.O27921@lrc.di.epfl.ch>
By author: almesber@lrc.di.epfl.ch
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> Horst von Brand wrote:
> > What about mounts under the (now old) root? What if /new_root/usr doesn't
> > exist, is not a directory, has something else mounted? What happens with
> > open /dev/whatever?
>
> Wrong approach: too complex, too intrusive, too unreliable.
>

What approach?

     -hpa

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