Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2016 04:02:35 +0000 (UTC) From: Benjamin Kaduk <bjk@FreeBSD.org> To: doc-committers@freebsd.org, svn-doc-all@freebsd.org, svn-doc-head@freebsd.org Subject: svn commit: r47995 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status Message-ID: <201601120402.u0C42ZbO023723@repo.freebsd.org>
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Author: bjk Date: Tue Jan 12 04:02:35 2016 New Revision: 47995 URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/47995 Log: Add root remount entry from trasz Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-10-2015-12.xml Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-10-2015-12.xml ============================================================================== --- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-10-2015-12.xml Tue Jan 12 03:59:39 2016 (r47994) +++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-10-2015-12.xml Tue Jan 12 04:02:35 2016 (r47995) @@ -1763,4 +1763,38 @@ </task> </help> </project> + + <project cat='proj'> + <title>Root Remount</title> + + <contact> + <person> + <name> + <given>Edward Tomasz</given> + <common>Napierala</common> + </name> + <email>trasz@FreeBSD.org</email> + </person> + </contact> + + <body> + <p>One of the long-missing features of &os; was the ability to + boot up with a temporary rootfs, configure the kernel to be able + to access the real rootfs, and then replace the temporary root + with the real one. In Linux, this functionality is known as + pivot_root. The reroot projects provides similar functionality in + a different, slightly more user-friendly way: rerooting. Simply + put, from the user point of view it looks like the system performs + a partial shutdown, killing all processes and unmounting the + rootfs, and then partial bringup, mounting the new rootfs, running + init, and running the startup scripts as usual.</p> + + <p>The project is finished. All the relevant code has been committed + to &os; 11-CURRENT, and is expected to ship with &os; 11.0.</p> + </body> + + <sponsor> + The FreeBSD Foundation + </sponsor> + </project> </report>
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