Messages in this thread | | | From | Denis Vlasenko <> | Subject | Re: rootfs and /dev/root | Date | Wed, 21 May 2003 14:29:10 +0300 |
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On 21 May 2003 04:14, Mark Dascher wrote: > I'm curious about the two entries in /proc/mounts: > rootfs and /dev/root. Although I don't have much > experience with this, I've looked through some of the > kernel source code (e.g. fs/namespace.c or > init/do_mounts.c). All I can come up with (actually, > this is pretty much what I thought before I looked at > any code) is that rootfs is purely a kernel-generated > filesystem. The kernel creates the /dev/root device > there, and then mounts /dev/root at / (replacing > rootfs).
Yes that's what happens. Guys are planning to be able to *really* umount real (disk-based) root fs someday and continue halt/reboot sequence using files (scripts etc) on this virtual rootfs.
So there will be both 'early userspace' and 'late userspace' ;)
IMHO. -- vda - 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/
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