From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Thu, 24 Dec 2015 08:30:58 +0100 Subject: [Buildroot] Newbie boot and fs mount question In-Reply-To: <04294576-64CB-4232-80B7-362A7A7DC2FF@gmail.com> References: <20151222210930.7929c662@free-electrons.com> <04294576-64CB-4232-80B7-362A7A7DC2FF@gmail.com> Message-ID: <20151224083058.1cffa502@free-electrons.com> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net 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