linux-kernel - Re: [GIT]: Sparc

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Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.1.10.0804211630220.2779@woody.linux-foundation.org>
Date:	Mon, 21 Apr 2008 16:32:32 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>
cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	sparclinux@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [GIT]: Sparc



On Tue, 22 Apr 2008, Al Viro wrote:
> 
> FWIW, two things I _really_ want dead and gone are
> 	* timod (or full rewrite of that animal; current one is badly racy
> and plays fast and loose with way too many place in VFS guts)
> 	* altroot (use chroot, damnit, and bind whatever you need in there)

I heartily concur about the "altroot" thing. It should die. Removing that 
part from the Solaris/SunOS emulation is probably worthwhile, and then 
eventually when/if we end up having a working unionfs, that (along with 
solaros/sunos-emulation specific mounts) should be able to replace the 
need for altroot.

		Linus
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