Re: altroot

[Reinoud Zandijk <reinoud%gorilla.13thmonkey.org@localhost>]

On Tue, Nov 12, 2024 at 03:23:45PM +0100, Edgar Fuß wrote:
> Whats the point of /altroot? hier(7) says "Alternate root file system, 
> in case of disaster." Is there a way to boot such that / is not inode 2, 
> but that of altroot?

Speaking of which, does NetBSD VFS code grok multiple vnodes on a device
marked with VV_ROOT that are not connected to eachother by directories? I'd
like to use that feature in my SFS code to represent multiple mount points on
a single device. I haven't tried it out but at first glance it does seem to
be legal.

Has anyone tried this before?

With regards,
Reinoud