Re: pivot_root depreciated?

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On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 03:50:52PM +0100, Thomas Bächler wrote:
> In particular, if systemd is used in the initramfs, it will do an
> equivalent to util-linux's switch_root, but it will use an internal
> reimplementation to be able to pass some internal state from the
> initrd's systemd to the system's systemd (which would be lost if systemd
> would exec an external binary other than systemd).

Just for the record, switch_root has been originally implemented by
dracut folks and then moved to util-linux. (I guess that dracut
without systemd still uses the original switch_root.)

    Karel


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