From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755811AbXFPQPo (ORCPT ); Sat, 16 Jun 2007 12:15:44 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753805AbXFPQPh (ORCPT ); Sat, 16 Jun 2007 12:15:37 -0400 Received: from smtp2.linux-foundation.org ([207.189.120.14]:53725 "EHLO smtp2.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753753AbXFPQPg (ORCPT ); Sat, 16 Jun 2007 12:15:36 -0400 Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2007 09:15:14 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: David Howells Cc: torvalds@linux-foundation.org, trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] NFS: Make NFS root work again Message-Id: <20070616091514.8e5dc1d3.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20070607164003.24322.51086.stgit@warthog.cambridge.redhat.com> References: <20070607164003.24322.51086.stgit@warthog.cambridge.redhat.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.4.1 (GTK+ 2.8.17; x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 07 Jun 2007 17:40:03 +0100 David Howells wrote: > Make NFS root work by creating a "/root" directory to satisfy the mount, > otherwise the path lookup for the mount fails with ENOENT. > > Signed-off-by: David Howells > --- > > init/do_mounts.c | 5 ++++- > 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/init/do_mounts.c b/init/do_mounts.c > index 46fe407..967b852 100644 > --- a/init/do_mounts.c > +++ b/init/do_mounts.c > @@ -270,7 +270,10 @@ static void __init get_fs_names(char *page) > > static int __init do_mount_root(char *name, char *fs, int flags, void *data) > { > - int err = sys_mount(name, "/root", fs, flags, data); > + int err; > + > + sys_mkdir("/root", 0755); > + err = sys_mount(name, "/root", fs, flags, data); > if (err) > return err; Am still awaiting a proper description of this patch, please. What is not working, and how does this patch fix it? I am unaware of any open bug reports against NFS root.