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Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2001 02:20:23 +0200
From: Werner Almesberger <wa@almesberger.net>
To: Eric <ebrower@usa.net>
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Subject: Re: [Q] pivot_root and initrd
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Eric wrote:
> Both the pivot_root(8) manpage and the <linux>/Documentation/initrd.txt 
> document admonish us to do much more than shown below (chroot, relative 
> pathing of pivot_root arguments, etc).

Correct, yes. Peter's procedure should work with the current
implementation, but it's safer to use the documented approach,
particularly if the solution is distributed to other people.

I currently don't have any plans for changing the pivot_root
implementation, but I wouldn't be surprised if something comes
up at some point in 2.5, since the overall boot architecture
needs a bit of work.

- Werner

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