Difference between pivot_root and chroot?

On Tue, Dec 21, 2004 at 02:30:34PM -0600, Klaus Weidner wrote:
> Why don't you like the pivot_root option? Do you also object to booting a
> kernel with modules in an "initrd" which would IMHO be similar? The end
> result is that the booted system won't have any dependencies left on the
> originally booted system. I can understand not liking the "chroot"
> approach, but pivot_root is different. I'd consider it to be much less
> 

Hi,

Would you be able to explain the difference between pivot_root and chroot?  

Sorry, it is not clear to me, from reading the man pages, or google.

Thanks,
Patrick.
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