Re: pivot_root. unmount old root
On Wed, 24 Mar 2010 04:16:20 -0400 (EDT), K. Haselhorst wrote:
> Stephen Powell wrote:
>>
>> Maybe lsof doesn't necessarily list everything. What does "fuser -m
>> /old_root"
>> show? What about doing "fuser -k -m /old_root"?
>
> Ok, I finally got the old root unmounted. There were some tmpfs mounted
> unter old-root/dev/shm and old-root/lib/init/... - after unmounting these
> I could also unmount the old-root. It's strange that neither lsof nor
> fuser did show any open files for these mountpoints... I really wonder how
> the pivot_root guys expect their examples to work ;)
Of course! Why didn't I think of that! There is nothing keeping the file
system structure from from being umounted, which is what "fuser -m" was
designed to show. But it still has to be umounted "from the bottom up."
I guess I just assumed that the shutdown scripts would umount that stuff,
but I guess since it's not a permanent file system they don't bother.
If you're shutting down or rebooting, you don't need to do that. They
remount the permanent root file system read-only, which causes the write
cache to be flushed to disk, but that's as far as they go. If you
want to do a pivot_root and umount the old root, you do actually have to
umount that stuff. I'm sorry I didn't think of it. Nice sleuthing!
>
> What I still need to figure out is how I can replace init with a custom
> process... but I think for that I will have to patch init itself.
Why do you need to patch init?
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