Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2015 20:00:48 +0000 (UTC) From: Ed Maste <emaste@FreeBSD.org> To: doc-committers@freebsd.org, svn-doc-all@freebsd.org, svn-doc-head@freebsd.org Subject: svn commit: r47567 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status Message-ID: <201510152000.t9FK0maE018082@repo.freebsd.org>
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Author: emaste (src committer) Date: Thu Oct 15 20:00:47 2015 New Revision: 47567 URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/47567 Log: Add reroot project report, from trasz@ Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-07-2015-09.xml Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-07-2015-09.xml ============================================================================== --- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-07-2015-09.xml Thu Oct 15 19:02:39 2015 (r47566) +++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-07-2015-09.xml Thu Oct 15 20:00:47 2015 (r47567) @@ -654,6 +654,49 @@ </help> </project> + <project cat='proj'> + <title>Root remount</title> + + <contact> + <person> + <name> + <given>Edward Tomasz</given> + <common>Napierala</common> + </name> + <email>trasz@FreeBSD.org</email> + </person> + </contact> + + <links> + <url href="https://reviews.freebsd.org/D3693" /> + </links> + + <body> + <p>One of the long missing features of FreeBSD was the ability + to boot up 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 pivot_root. + 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's as simple as + running "reboot -r", which makes the system perform 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 kernel part of the project was committed to 11-CURRENT. + The userland part is at "finishing touches" stage, and is + expected to be committed soon. + A merge to stable/10 is planned and reroot support should + be included in &os; 10.3.</p> + </body> + + <sponsor> + The FreeBSD Foundation + </sponsor> +</project> + <project cat='misc'> <title>The FreeBSD Foundation</title>
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