Bug#767551: marked as done (udev: udev_root support missing)

Martin Pitt mpitt at debian.org
Tue Oct 25 18:39:22 BST 2016


Debian Bug Tracking System [2016-10-25 14:42 +0000]:
> Please stop reopening this bug: I am quite sure that udev_root is not 
> coming back. Definitely not without a very strong use case.

It's also not something you can rely on anyway -- there is no
guarantee that your root mount is a kernel device. It might be a
btrfs subvolume, a tmpfs, an NFS mount, or any number of things. So
/dev/root is conceptually broken.

Martin

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