On Friday 02 March 2007 00:04, Sylvain Beucler wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm using a 2.6.20-um host on a 2.6.20-skas3-v8.2 host.
>
> When specifying hostfs=/tmp on the kernel command line, then:
>
> - mount none -t hostfs mount-point/
>   -> mounts the host's /tmp (good), but
>
> - mount none -t hostfs mount-point/ -o /
>   -> mounts the hosts "/" (bad).
>
> I think it's a bug.

Yes, it is.

> This doesn't happen in Jeff's 2.6.19rc5 kernel.

You mean a tree with patches from 

http://user-mode-linux.sourceforge.net/patches.html?

That contains a hostfs rewrite from scratch. We'll keep you posted about the 
resolution - it is easy to solve, I'm just busy these days.

> HOSTFS is compiled as non-module in both kernels.
>
> Cheers,

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