On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 10:04:40AM -0500, Phillip Susi wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > I could have sworn that the pivot_root syscall was considered a > fragile dirty hack that needed to die in a fire, and everyone switched > to run-init years ago. Am I misremembering things or does anyone know > what I'm talking about? pivot_root is still useful. It's used by systemd on shutdown to allow the system to return to an initramfs where the root filesystem can be unmounted and disassembled (e.g. close crypto mappings). Both dracut and mkinitcpio provide support for this. I'm not familiar with run-init but, glancing at the code, it looks like it does the same job of util-linux's switch_root. d -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe util-linux" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
