tags 472579 -patch
reassign 472579 udev
stop

On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 05:59:20PM +0100, Helmut Grohne wrote:
> 
> I am not even using klibc. Am I required to use run-init? Is there any
> benefit from doing so when I do not want to mount another block device
> on /? The test case I have given makes the kernel directly execute init
> like it was before we had initramfs or initrd. Is this deprecated or in
> some other way doomed? I don't really see why I should not be doing
> this. The document I quoted in my previous mail also implicitly states
> that it is *not* required to mount a block device over /.

yes run-init is the standard way to nuke your initramfs and
the succesor of pivot_root() it is heavily audited used on
rh, suse, debian, ubuntu, ..
no point in keeping rootfs, nuking is very quick.

see yaird for compiling it against glibc.
 
> In /etc/init.d/udev line 27, please insert
> 
> test $(grep '^[^ ]* / ' /proc/mounts | wc -l) -eq 1 && no_static_dev=y

sorry but that is not a patch, please post a real unified diff,
thanks.
 
-- 
maks



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