Re: initrd [was: Linux-2.1.92 - Feature Freeze]

Miquel van Smoorenburg (miquels@cistron.nl)
4 Apr 1998 16:20:38 +0200

In article <6g4c2r$jii$1@palladium.transmeta.com>,
H. Peter Anvin <hpa@transmeta.com> wrote:
>Why is that? initrd is an excellent and very general mechanism.
>There seems to be a lot of resistance to using it; unfortunately I

It's too complicated. Why is there no system call to change the root-fs
on the fly instead?

I actually overloaded chroot() to do this somewhere around 1.1.x, and
built a single-floppy Linux system that once booted remounted it's
root filesystem from an NFS server. So it is proven that it works.

With just a change-root system call, initrd and nfsroot aren't needed..

(See ftp:/ftp.cistron.nl//pub/people/miquels/kernel/Old/new_root_diffs)

Mike.

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