From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: / on ramfs, possible?
Date: 29 Oct 2000 23:34:01 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8tj899$dqg$1@cesium.transmeta.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200010300727.IAA12250@hell.wii.ericsson.net>
Followup to: <200010300727.IAA12250@hell.wii.ericsson.net>
By author: Anders Eriksson <aer-list@mailandnews.com>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> I want my / to be a ramfs filesystem. I intend to populate it from an
> initrd image, and then remount / as the ramfs filesystem. Is that at
> all possible? The way I see it the kernel requires / on a device
> (major,minor) or nfs.
>
> Am I out of luck using ramfs as /? If it's easy to fix, how do I fix it?
>
Use pivot_root instead of the initrd stuff in /proc/sys.
-hpa
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2000-10-30 7:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-10-30 7:27 / on ramfs, possible? Anders Eriksson
2000-10-30 7:34 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2000-10-30 23:24 ` David Woodhouse
2000-10-30 23:26 ` H. Peter Anvin
2000-10-30 23:32 ` David Woodhouse
2000-10-30 23:37 ` H. Peter Anvin
2000-10-30 23:39 ` Jeff Garzik
2000-11-01 9:16 ` aer-list
2000-10-30 12:42 ` Alan Cox
2000-10-30 20:09 ` Stuart Lynne
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2000-10-30 8:39 Adam J. Richter
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