David Howells wrote:
Make NFS root work by creating a "/root" directory to satisfy the mount,
otherwise the path lookup for the mount fails with ENOENT.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <[email protected]>
---
init/do_mounts.c | 5 ++++-
1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/init/do_mounts.c b/init/do_mounts.c
index 46fe407..967b852 100644
--- a/init/do_mounts.c
+++ b/init/do_mounts.c
@@ -270,7 +270,10 @@ static void __init get_fs_names(char *page)
static int __init do_mount_root(char *name, char *fs, int flags, void *data)
{
- int err = sys_mount(name, "/root", fs, flags, data);
+ int err;
+
+ sys_mkdir("/root", 0755);
+ err = sys_mount(name, "/root", fs, flags, data);
if (err)
return err;
It seems to me that if sys_mkdir() fails with anything other other
than EEXISTS, then sys_mount() will continue to fail. Is this
something that we care about?
ps
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