Re: switch_root: zap the last directory for the mount point of new-root

2019-07-19 Thread Kang-Che Sung
On Friday, July 19, 2019, Kang-Che Sung wrote: > > There's side benefit for this patch: In case that overmount fails, we can have > a rootfs kept intact (instead of almost destroyed). > Correction. It's just a side effect, not a "benefit" worth talking about. Speaking of, since we are now

Re: switch_root: zap the last directory for the mount point of new-root

2019-07-19 Thread Kang-Che Sung
On Fri, Jul 19, 2019 at 3:27 PM 阿保 純一 wrote: > > As the author said in the comment of util-linux/switch_root.c, current > implementation leaves the mount point of new root-file-system without rmdir(). > As long as I experimented on a linux kernel, current process of "/" still > points old

switch_root: zap the last directory for the mount point of new-root

2019-07-19 Thread 阿保 純一
As the author said in the comment of util-linux/switch_root.c, current implementation leaves the mount point of new root-file-system without rmdir(). As long as I experimented on a linux kernel, current process of "/" still points old root-file-system even "/" is overmounted. So we can still