To: Michael Weiser <michael@weiser.dinsnail.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] udev 021 release
In-Reply-To: <1vBuj-3YL-17@gated-at.bofh.it>
References: <1vshj-2ou-9@gated-at.bofh.it> <1vBuj-3YL-17@gated-at.bofh.it>
Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2004 14:51:14 +0100
Message-Id: <E1AyWmI-00004I-4y@localhost>
From: Pascal Schmidt <der.eremit@email.de>
Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org
Content-Length: 894
Lines: 22

On Wed, 03 Mar 2004 11:10:11 +0100, you wrote in linux.kernel:

> Also I very much liked the automatic creation of /dev/root by devfs
> because it kept the system bootable after moves around different
> harddrives and partitions several times where I would normally have
> forgotten to adjust fstab to the new root. I poked around sysfs and proc
> a bit but can't seem to find anything that would permit me to simlute
> that behaviour with udev. Does udev perhaps already support something
> like this?

You could do that in early user-space by reading
/proc/sys/kernel/real-root-dev and setting up /dev/root from that
information.

-- 
Ciao,
Pascal
-
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/