Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2006 11:45:10 -0800 From: Tim Kientzle <kientzle@freebsd.org> To: Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, Oliver Fromme <olli@lurza.secnetix.de> Subject: Re: Init.c, making it chroot Message-ID: <45981346.3050201@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20061230123256.V18740@fledge.watson.org> References: <200612301119.kBUBJNno062104@lurza.secnetix.de> <20061230123256.V18740@fledge.watson.org>
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Robert Watson wrote: > ... It used to be that only certain file systems could be used as a > root file system, because only they knew how to bypass the lookup > procedure to find their device node, short-circuiting to the in-kernel > device list. So why are the MD_ROOT and NFS_ROOT options still around? It sounds like there must still be something special about root-capable file systems. Tim Kientzle
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