On Thu, Dec 08, 2011 at 07:47:28AM -0800, Chris Haumesser wrote: > Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > > Hmm, so your actual filesystem on the host side is read only ? > > Yup, mounting a squashfs in RAM. > > > I'll have to think about how to make it work when the host > > FS itself is readonly. Probably have to define some location > > that is guarenteed to exist, instead of trying to create a > > '/.oldroot' location ourselves. > > > I suppose so, yes. What is the purpose of .oldroot? When I switch to a > rw filesystem, I see that .oldroot gets created, but it is just an empty > directory. It is used as an intermediate temporary location when we pivot from one root filesystem to another, so you shouldn't expect to see anything there. We just need a directory somewhere to pivot on, and chose to use /.oldroot Daniel -- |: http://berrange.com -o- http://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: http://entangle-photo.org -o- http://live.gnome.org/gtk-vnc :|
