Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754935AbYCBLST (ORCPT ); Sun, 2 Mar 2008 06:18:19 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753453AbYCBLSK (ORCPT ); Sun, 2 Mar 2008 06:18:10 -0500 Received: from pasmtpa.tele.dk ([80.160.77.114]:54428 "EHLO pasmtpA.tele.dk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753445AbYCBLSJ (ORCPT ); Sun, 2 Mar 2008 06:18:09 -0500 Subject: Re: [PATCH] chroot= as a new kernel parameter From: Kasper Sandberg To: Stefan Hellermann Cc: Pawel Plociennik , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <47C9B22D.6010003@the2masters.de> References: <200803011409.59526.paplociennik@gmail.com> <47C9B22D.6010003@the2masters.de> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Sun, 02 Mar 2008 12:17:06 +0100 Message-Id: <1204456626.4117.9.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.4.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1455 Lines: 39 On Sat, 2008-03-01 at 20:44 +0100, Stefan Hellermann wrote: > Pawel Plociennik schrieb: > > hi *real* hackers, > > > > it is a my first post to lkml and I hope that you will have not been > > ignored me if I have done some incorrect thing. > > > > In the short this patch has added a new chroot= kernel parameter which can be used > > to changing a chroot of an init process before it will has been runed. > > I use that for testing variouses distroes without making a separate partition but > > by copied a new root-fs to a new subdirectory on the my *base* filesystem. > > Hi! > > Gentoos initrd (build by genkernel) has support for a chrooted boot, the parameter is > called subdir= > Maybe other distros have something similar, it's easy to support this with a initrd/initramfs. Hey! Im a simple guy though, i prefer this being in the kernel. I do not even use an initramfs. > > Cheers > Stefan > > PS: This is my first post to lkml, too :) > -- > 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/ -- 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/