svn commit: r46972 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status

Warren Block <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.devel.cvs.doc
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Author: wblock
Date: Tue Jul 14 15:55:42 2015
New Revision: 46972
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/46972

Log:
  Add Edward Tomasz Napiera?a <[email protected]>'s root remount report.

Modified:
  head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-04-2015-06.xml

Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-04-2015-06.xml
==============================================================================
--- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-04-2015-06.xml	Tue Jul 14 15:49:20 2015	(r46971)
+++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-04-2015-06.xml	Tue Jul 14 15:55:42 2015	(r46972)
@@ -1190,4 +1190,46 @@
       Mellanox Technologies
     </sponsor>
   </project>
+
+  <project cat='proj'>
+    <title>Root Remount</title>
+
+    <contact>
+      <person>
+	<name>
+	  <given>Edward Tomasz</given>
+	  <common>Napierala</common>
+	</name>
+	<email>[email protected]</email>
+      </person>
+    </contact>
+
+    <body>
+      <p>One of the long missing features of &os; was the ability to
+	boot with a temporary rootfs, configure the kernel to be able
+	to access the real rootfs, and then replace the temporary root
+	with the real one.  In Linux, the functionality is known as
+	<tt>pivot_root</tt>.  The reroot projects aims to provide
+	similar functionality in a different, slightly more
+	user-friendly way: rerooting.  Simply put, from the user point
+	of view it looks like the system performs a partial shutdown,
+	killing all processes and unmounting the rootfs, and then
+	partial bringup, mounting the new rootfs, running init, and
+	running the startup scripts as usual.</p>
+
+      <p>The project is in the late implementation phase.  A working
+	prototype was written, and work is in process to rewrite it in
+	an architecturally nicer way.</p>
+    </body>
+
+    <sponsor>
+      The FreeBSD Foundation
+    </sponsor>
+
+    <help>
+      <task>
+	<p>Complete debugging</p>
+      </task>
+    </help>
+  </project>
 </report>
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