[PATCH] pivot_root: add comment
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
diff --git a/fs/namespace.c b/fs/namespace.c
index 2019899f..e5aa1ee 100644
--- a/fs/namespace.c
+++ b/fs/namespace.c
@@ -1526,6 +1526,10 @@
* pointed to by put_old must yield the same directory as new_root. No other
* file system may be mounted on put_old. After all, new_root is a mountpoint.
*
+ * Also, the current root cannot be on the 'rootfs' (initial ramfs) filesystem.
+ * See Documentation/filesystems/ramfs-rootfs-initramfs.txt for alternatives
+ * in this situation.
+ *
* Notes:
* - we don't move root/cwd if they are not at the root (reason: if something
* cared enough to change them, it's probably wrong to force them elsewhere)
