svn commit: r47567 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status

Thu Oct 15 20:00:49 UTC 2015

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
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--- 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 at 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>
 
