On Sat, May 04, 2002 at 07:40:16AM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote: > Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> wrote: > > and I'm not at all clear why. Playing games with pivot_root is hideous > > and should be (is, sometimes) completely unnecessary. > > Actually, pivot_root is the recommended method of doing this. The > old change root mechanism is obsolete. The only task is to convert The specific mechanism isn't the hideous part. The hideous part is the suggestion that the rootfs type be somehow hardcoded into a new (debian-specific) mechanism in the initrd. That's not the current case, nor should it be. If that's not what that bug report was mean to suggest, and the only point of the bug report was to switch from change root to pivot_root, I don't understand how it's at all relevant to the ext3 problem. -- Mike Stone
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