Re: [SOLVED] pivot_root. unmount old root

2010-03-30 Thread brandlk
> By the way, what is the big picture, if you don't mind my asking? Are you > trying to eventually achieve a "diskless workstation"? What is the > overall goal here? It's a cluster where machines get booted, shutdown or replaced regularly. So it would be nice to keep the kernel running. K. Hase

Re: pivot_root. unmount old root

2010-03-24 Thread brandlk
>> The umount command fails with "device is busy". privot root and chroot >> work fine. > > So everything works except the umount. Interesting. From the example > in the man page they obviously expect it to be possible to umount the > old root file system. > >>> Kill should be able to kill any pr

Re: pivot_root. unmount old root

2010-03-23 Thread brandlk
>> I really wonder in which context this example (and also the other one >> given >> in the manpage) could work? Have you sucessfully tried it on your >> system? > > No, I've never had occasion to. > But where exactly is the failure occuring? > Does the mount command fail? > Does the pivot_root com