From: Chris Wedgwood <cw@f00f.org>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Pawel Plociennik <paplociennik@gmail.com>,
Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.24] chroot= as a new kernel parameter
Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2008 00:23:41 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080307082341.GA8607@puku.stupidest.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080306113729.GA18403@elte.hu>
On Thu, Mar 06, 2008 at 12:37:29PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> while i have no personal use for chroot=, i generally test distros
> that way, yes - and i try to keep them as unmodified as possible.
It's not clear to me how this would work.
If the distro uses an initrd (most do now?) how will this work? The
chroot will happen inside the initrd which will then break (because
/init won't be there).
> _Everything_ we do on the boot commandline that affects user-space
> can be done in an initrd in theory - but still we have hundreds of
> boot options.
Precendent alone isn't a good reason to do something, a change should
have merit of it's own.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-03-07 8:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-03-06 5:01 Pawel Plociennik
2008-03-06 4:58 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-03-06 10:27 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-03-06 15:17 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-03-06 20:57 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-03-06 21:05 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-03-06 21:20 ` Pavel Machek
2008-03-06 21:30 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-03-06 22:05 ` Matthias Schniedermeyer
2008-03-07 10:36 ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2008-03-07 12:28 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-03-06 21:42 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-03-06 21:50 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-03-06 22:22 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-03-07 4:53 ` Greg Schafer
2008-03-07 9:27 ` Måns Rullgård
2008-03-06 16:54 ` Pawel Plociennik
2008-03-06 15:47 ` Pawel Plociennik
2008-03-06 10:34 ` Chris Wedgwood
2008-03-06 10:44 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-03-06 11:22 ` Chris Wedgwood
2008-03-06 11:37 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-03-06 11:53 ` Pavel Machek
2008-03-06 19:46 ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-03-06 20:57 ` Willy Tarreau
2008-03-07 8:23 ` Chris Wedgwood [this message]
2008-03-07 21:04 devzero
2008-03-07 22:32 ` Christian Kujau
2008-03-08 14:10 Al Boldi
2008-03-08 14:28 ` Christian Kujau
2008-03-08 16:34 ` Al Boldi
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