Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751017AbVKYLxL (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 Nov 2005 06:53:11 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751454AbVKYLxL (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 Nov 2005 06:53:11 -0500 Received: from 41-052.adsl.zetnet.co.uk ([194.247.41.52]:23558 "EHLO mail.esperi.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751017AbVKYLxK (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 Nov 2005 06:53:10 -0500 To: Rob Landley Cc: Neil Brown , Al Viro , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: pivot_root broken in 2.6.15-rc1-mm2 References: <17283.52960.913712.454816@cse.unsw.edu.au> <20051123021545.GP27946@ftp.linux.org.uk> <17283.56197.347658.787608@cse.unsw.edu.au> <200511230602.53960.rob@landley.net> From: Nix X-Emacs: it's not slow --- it's stately. Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2005 11:52:33 +0000 In-Reply-To: <200511230602.53960.rob@landley.net> (Rob Landley's message of "23 Nov 2005 12:03:42 -0000") Message-ID: <87psopkkqm.fsf@amaterasu.srvr.nix> User-Agent: Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) XEmacs/21.4 (Corporate Culture, linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 755 Lines: 19 On 23 Nov 2005, Rob Landley gibbered uncontrollably: > Rather than unmounting rootfs, it deletes everything out of it to free up the > space. (It basically does the functional equivalent of "find / -xdev | xargs > rm -rf" Er, find / -xdev | xargs rm -f, I hope. (rm won't respect the -xdev you gave to find, and, well, if your new root is mounted at all, you're dead :) ) -- `Y'know, London's nice at this time of year. If you like your cities freezing cold and full of surly gits.' --- David Damerell - 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/