* De: Julian Elischer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [ Data: 2002-10-04 ]
[ Subjecte: Re: [ GEOM tests ] disklabel warnings and vinum drives lost ]
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> On Fri, 4 Oct 2002, Robert Watson wrote:
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> > On the general topic of access to devices before a root has been found,
> > Maxime Henrion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> has done some interesting work on
> > 'rootfs', a pseudofs used to bootstrap support for devfs, etc. In such an
> > environment, Vinum and other consumers of devices would be able to rely on
> > devfs access prior to the "real root" mount process. I'm not sure which
> > pivotroot-like trick he's using, or whether he's doing the union thing to
> > do the root re-mount. Presumably he has to be careful not to deadfs the
> > devfs nodes in place before the real root turns up, etc.
>
> The original devfs supported access from within the kernel before
> mounting root and devfs..
> It's not rocket science.
A rootfs has many other ideal uses. Like spinning bits of the kernel off
to userland, and having procfs exist, too.
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