Benjamin Sonntag wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
>> Is there a reason you don't just mkdir .oldroot in your base filesystem?
>>
> yes : in the vcontext.c code, there is :
>
> - mkdir (and if it fail, exit)
Unless it already existed.
> - mount (and if it fail, exit)
> - pivot_root (and if it fail, exit)
> - umount (and if it fail, exit)
> - rmdir (and if it fail, exit)
>
> so ... If I pre-create the .oldroot folder, I still have to patch the code for this to work,
> and remove both the mkdir and the rmdir
Nope. Just create the directory.
> Since I wanted to make it works for everybody, not only the one using read-only root,
> I proposed this patch which is far better since /var/run is bound to be read-write anyway.
I have several guests that don't even have a /var. So no, that won't
always work.
-- Daniel Hokka ZakrissonReceived on Mon Mar 21 08:28:33 2011