From: zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.com (Mimi Zohar)
To: linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [RFC PATCH] rootfs: force mounting rootfs as tmpfs
Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2018 23:22:01 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1517458921.3329.2.camel@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180201020331.GA3774@rani.riverdale>
On Wed, 2018-01-31 at 21:03 -0500, Arvind Sankar wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 31, 2018 at 05:48:20PM -0600, Rob Landley wrote:
> > On 01/31/2018 04:07 PM, Mimi Zohar wrote:
> > > On Wed, 2018-01-31 at 13:32 -0600, Rob Landley wrote:>> (The old "I configured in tmpfs and am using rootfs but I want that
> > rootfs
> > >> to be ramfs, not tmpfs" code doesn't seem to be a real-world concern, does
> > >> it?)
> > >
> > > I must be missing something. ?Which systems don't specify "root=" on
> > > the boot command line.
> >
> > Any system using initrd or initramfs?
> >
>
> Don't a lot of initramfs setups use root= to tell the initramfs which
> actual root file system to switch to after early boot?
With your patch and specifying "root=tmpfs", dracut is complaining:
dracut: FATAL: Don't know how to handle 'root=tmpfs'
dracut: refusing to continue
Mimi
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-02-01 4:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-01-30 21:46 [RFC PATCH] rootfs: force mounting rootfs as tmpfs Mimi Zohar
2018-01-31 19:32 ` Rob Landley
2018-01-31 22:07 ` Mimi Zohar
2018-01-31 23:48 ` Rob Landley
2018-02-01 2:03 ` Arvind Sankar
2018-02-01 4:22 ` Mimi Zohar [this message]
2018-02-01 15:20 ` Rob Landley
2018-02-01 15:55 ` Mimi Zohar
2018-02-01 17:09 ` Rob Landley
2018-02-01 21:51 ` Mimi Zohar
2018-02-01 22:41 ` Taras Kondratiuk
2018-02-01 23:34 ` Rob Landley
2018-04-16 15:46 ` Mimi Zohar
2018-02-01 22:46 ` Rob Landley
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