From: Dave Dodge <dododge@dododge.net>
To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Passing information from initramfs to real rootfs
Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2003 17:42:50 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <marc-linux-hotplug-106883182701954@msgid-missing> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <marc-linux-hotplug-106880306401848@msgid-missing>
On Fri, 14 Nov 2003, Hannes Reinecke wrote:
> I'm thinking especially on udev and friends; udev could handle
> hotplug-events during boot-up from initramfs, but the devices generated
> cannot be passed to the real root-device, so essentially we have to
> re-scan sysfs to find and generate all events which might have been
> generated during boot and pass them to udev _again_.
[...]
> Easiest solution would be to have it moved initrd-style to /initramfs or
> somesuch, then we could easily access it und umount it (i.e. free the
> memory) as soon as we're done with the processing.
That's what I was planning to do for my test system. With the current
kernel I basically have to eliminate mount_root anyway in order to
use initramfs at all, so I was going to do the "real" root mount in
userspace and pivot_root to it explicitly.
As far as the initramfs /dev, my plan is to try symlinking or bind
mounting it into the new root, and continue to use the same /dev as
initramfs. If you want to umount and free the initramfs memory then I
guess you'd have to copy the dev contents somehow (unless or until
someone has a way to create a dedicated ramfs for /dev during
initramfs and then remount that at /dev after a pivot_root).
-Dave Dodge
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-11-14 17:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-11-14 9:43 Passing information from initramfs to real rootfs Hannes Reinecke
2003-11-14 9:47 ` Olaf Hering
2003-11-14 17:42 ` Dave Dodge [this message]
2003-11-14 18:44 ` Olaf Hering
2003-11-20 0:01 ` Greg KH
2003-11-20 6:41 ` Olaf Hering
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