On Sat, Feb 28, 2004 at 02:09:16AM +0100, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
Hmm. With a dynamic major, the system might fail at checking the root
file system at boot. At that time, /dev is still read-only, and
/dev/md/d0p1 might not be the correct device yet.
So either mdp needs its own partition number, or we need a /dev/root
device that's an alias for the current root (like /dev/console).
Fortunately, that's very easy. Which makes me wonder why this hasn't
been done before .. what am I overlooking ?
Patch below uses 4,1 which is just arbitrary, ofcourse. Comments ?
I was missing this feature from linux, and i don't know why it was not
done before...
Having /dev/root also solves the similar problem of ppl whose root is on a
device-mapper like myself. (dm has dynamic majors)
Regards,
L.
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