Daniel Lezcano <dlezc...@fr.ibm.com> writes: > Ferenc Wagner wrote: > >> Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezc...@free.fr> writes: >> >>> Ferenc Wagner wrote: >>> >>>> While playing with lxc-start, I noticed that /tmp is infested by >>>> empty lxc-r* directories: [...] Ok, this name comes from lxc-rootfs >>>> in conf.c:setup_rootfs. After setup_rootfs_pivot_root returns, the >>>> original /tmp is not available anymore, so rmdir(tmpname) at the >>>> bottom of setup_rootfs can't achieve much. Why is this temporary >>>> name needed anyway? Is pivoting impossible without it? >>> >>> That was put in place with chroot, before pivot_root, so the distro's >>> scripts can remount their '/' without failing. >>> >>> Now we have pivot_root, I suppose we can change that to something cleaner... >> >> Like simply nuking it? Shall I send a patch? > > Sure, if we can kill it, I will be glad to take your patch :)
I can't see any reason why lxc-start couldn't do without that temporary recursive bind mount of the original root. If neither do you, I'll patch it out and see if it still flies. -- Thanks, Feri. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Lxc-users mailing list Lxc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/lxc-users
