Giancarlo Razzolini [grazzol...@gmail.com] wrote: > > One byproduct of such design would be the possibility of redirecting the > console to the ssh connection. I know this is deranging from the initial > idea, but make perfect sense. Anyway, I noted your concerns on this. > Now, anyone have any design idea for implementing this? >
Personally I think this sort-of soft-IPMI is a pretty cool idea and I found Matthieu's reply enlightening as well. Apparently Linux has made some progress beyond pivot_root and there are some interesting ideas there. (Note that we have a functioning tmpfs.) http://www.spinics.net/lists/util-linux-ng/msg08794.html https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/filesystems/ramfs-rootfs-initramfs.txt Evolving the kernel ramdisk to extract archive to a tmpfs might be the right thing to do if the BSD tmpfs has the same advantages (doesn't run the "backing store" back through the buffer cache etc.)
