Followup to: <20040301010419.GK14194@drinkel.cistron.nl> By author: Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> In newsgroup: linux.dev.raid > > POSIX allows different semantics for / and //, I mentioned before that > perhaps we should make "cd //" chdir to rootfs instead of /. Then > you can also have //proc and //sys without explicitly mounting them. > But I don't think the time has come for that yet (besides it needs > more thought wrt namespaces, chroot etc). > It's allowed, but definitely not recommended. I do like the idea of making rootfs remountable, though. > > Another is to add "rootdev" to /proc/*, as in appended patch. Then > > ln -s /proc/self/roodev /dev/root > > > > and providing /proc is mounted, /dev/root will work. > > I like that approach. .. assuming the rootfs isn't a nodev filesystem. -hpa - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
