Two roots mounted

[Denis Vlasenko]

On Wednesday 12 October 2005 10:52, Dmytro Bablinyuk wrote:
> I couldn't find place where actually rootfs comes from.
> 
> sh-3.00# mount
> rootfs on / type rootfs (rw)
> /dev/root on / type jffs2 (rw,noatime)
> proc on /proc type proc (rw,nodiratime)
> devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw)
> tmpfs on /tmp type tmpfs (rw)
> 
> I don't have /dev/root and I don't know where rootfs comes from. Why is 
>   '/' mounted two times? In '/etc' I couldn't see anything where this 
> happens..

Kernel does it even before it starts your init (both rootfs and /dev/<something>,
in your case /dev/root).
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vda