From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758642AbYDUXcp (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Apr 2008 19:32:45 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753800AbYDUXch (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Apr 2008 19:32:37 -0400 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:50925 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753344AbYDUXcg (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Apr 2008 19:32:36 -0400 Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2008 16:32:32 -0700 (PDT) From: Linus Torvalds To: Al Viro cc: David Miller , akpm@linux-foundation.org, sparclinux@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [GIT]: Sparc In-Reply-To: <20080421231815.GS27459@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> Message-ID: References: <20080421.153231.108090227.davem@davemloft.net> <20080421231815.GS27459@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> User-Agent: Alpine 1.10 (LFD 962 2008-03-14) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 22 Apr 2008, Al Viro wrote: > > FWIW, two things I _really_ want dead and gone are > * timod (or full rewrite of that animal; current one is badly racy > and plays fast and loose with way too many place in VFS guts) > * altroot (use chroot, damnit, and bind whatever you need in there) I heartily concur about the "altroot" thing. It should die. Removing that part from the Solaris/SunOS emulation is probably worthwhile, and then eventually when/if we end up having a working unionfs, that (along with solaros/sunos-emulation specific mounts) should be able to replace the need for altroot. Linus