On 2004.03.01 01:54, Neil Brown wrote: > On Saturday February 28, miquels@cistron.nl 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). > > > > Yes, I think this is a real problem. > There are a number of avenues that could be followed to fix it. > One it your suggestion. > > Another is to make "rootfs" remountable > > And then: > > mount -t rootfs rootfs /mnt/root > fsck /mnt/root/dev/root > > 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 might try to push it on linux-kernel. Mind if I post all three approaches (/dev/root alias device, rootfs, /proc/pid/root) to linux-kernel and ask input on what approach is the preferred one ? Mike. - 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
