Re: klibc (was: 2.6.18 -mm merge plans)

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Wed Jun 07 2006 - 17:14:58 EST


Followup to: <bda6d13a0606062351i5c94414fpa03ee2ce3dd180ae@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
By author: "Joshua Hudson" <joshudson@xxxxxxxxx>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> Did anybody ever fix the can't pivot_root() the rootfs filesystem;
> hense can't use on a loopback system backed by NTFS?
>

You shouldn't pivot_root the rootfs filesystem. Use the run-init
utility or something similar instead (which does a mount with
MS_MOVE.)

-hpa
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