Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S275252AbTHGJfp (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Aug 2003 05:35:45 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S275253AbTHGJfp (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Aug 2003 05:35:45 -0400 Received: from camus.xss.co.at ([194.152.162.19]:49677 "EHLO camus.xss.co.at") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S275252AbTHGJfg (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Aug 2003 05:35:36 -0400 Message-ID: <3F321D41.1090004@xss.co.at> Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2003 11:34:57 +0200 From: Andreas Haumer Organization: xS+S User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: herbert@13thfloor.at CC: Marcelo Tosatti , Rene Mayrhofer , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Jason Baron Subject: Re: pivot_root solved by patch to 2.4.22-pre7 References: <3F309FD8.8090105@gibraltar.at> <20030806195101.GB16054@www.13thfloor.at> In-Reply-To: <20030806195101.GB16054@www.13thfloor.at> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.74.0.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1966 Lines: 59 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi! Herbert P?tzl wrote: > On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 04:33:52PM -0300, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > >>What is your problem with pivot_root? >> >>Sorry but I've searched the list archives and found nothing but this email >>and this patch, which seems a bit hackish. > > > Jul 21 Rene Mayrhofer 82 pivot_root seems to be broken in 2.4.21-a1716 > Jul 22 Denis Vlasenko 103 > > Jul 22 Rene Mayrhofer 54 > > Jul 22 Jason Baron 18 > > Jul 22 Alan Cox 22 > > Jul 22 Rene Mayrhofer 25 > > Jul 22 Alan Cox 17 > > Jul 22 Rene Mayrhofer 154 > > Jul 23 Mika Penttil? 40 > > Jul 22 Mika Penttil? 41 > > This patch also solves my problem as reported on Jul. 29th (Subject: "2.4.22-pre4: devfs on initrd stays busy after pivot_root" Message-ID: 3F267FD7.4040400@xss.co.at) and in more detail on July 30th, (Message-ID: 3F2795DE.5020306@xss.co.at) I just tried it with 2.4.22-rc1, and with this patch I am able to umount /initrd/dev and /initrd after pivot_root again! Don't know yet if it has any ill side effects, though. HTH - - andreas - -- Andreas Haumer | mailto:andreas@xss.co.at *x Software + Systeme | http://www.xss.co.at/ Karmarschgasse 51/2/20 | Tel: +43-1-6060114-0 A-1100 Vienna, Austria | Fax: +43-1-6060114-71 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQE/Mh0/xJmyeGcXPhERAmbLAKCUrXFUA44ggJvOBMlwvA4GKFsWdwCeNIid 4bWSyQ2OFqwXnNdU8t/bJsw= =sdiS -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/