Init.c, making it chroot
Tim Kientzle
kientzle at freebsd.org
Sun Dec 31 12:18:22 PST 2006
Robert Watson wrote:
> ... It used to be that only certain file systems could be used as a
> root file system, because only they knew how to bypass the lookup
> procedure to find their device node, short-circuiting to the in-kernel
> device list.
So why are the MD_ROOT and NFS_ROOT options still around?
It sounds like there must still be something special about
root-capable file systems.
Tim Kientzle
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