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Add Edward Tomasz Napiera?a <trasz@FreeBSD.org>'s root remount report.

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Mellanox Technologies
</sponsor>
</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>
<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>