From: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
To: buildroot@busybox.net
Subject: [Buildroot] Newbie boot and fs mount question
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 2015 08:30:58 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151224083058.1cffa502@free-electrons.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <04294576-64CB-4232-80B7-362A7A7DC2FF@gmail.com>
Dear Mathew Benson,
On Wed, 23 Dec 2015 19:04:05 -0600, Mathew Benson wrote:
> I have a possible dumb question. I enabled initrd to be linked into
> the kernel, thinking boot time might be faster. I enabled the
> "remount filesystem" option, thinking that would remount it from the
> hard drive rather than the linked in rootfs. Is that an incorrect
> assumption?
Yes, it is an incorrect assumption. In Buildroot, if you enable
"initial RAM filesystem linked into linux kernel", then the entire
root filesystem lives in RAM, and we never switch to another on-storage
filesystem.
Best regards,
Thomas
--
Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering
http://free-electrons.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-12-24 7:30 UTC|newest]
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2015-12-22 16:07 [Buildroot] Newbie boot and fs mount question Mathew Benson
2015-12-22 20:09 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2015-12-24 1:04 ` Mathew Benson
2015-12-24 7:30 ` Thomas Petazzoni [this message]
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2015-12-25 0:41 mathew.benson
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