From: Kent Robotti <dwilson24@nyc.rr.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Initramfs and TMPFS!
Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2005 21:34:08 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050826213408.GA1001@Linux.nyc.rr.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050826202226.GA13807@taniwha.stupidest.org>
On Fri, Aug 26, 2005 at 01:22:26PM -0700, Chris Wedgwood wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 26, 2005 at 08:08:51PM +0000, Kent Robotti wrote:
>
> > Overmount_rootfs shouldn't take place until you know for sure the
> > kernel detects an initramfs.
>
> Actually, it was a deliberate decision to *always* overmount after
> some discussion with people.
Ideally, I don't know why you would want to overmount unless the
kernel detects an initramfs.
> It's not a clean solution and the overall goals aren't clear here so
> it was never submitted for inclusion --- an the fact is 99.9% of users
> simply don't need or care for this.
I know the patch is just a quick and simple way to use tmpfs for
initramfs, and it seems to work.
But, it would be nice if were cleaned up for that less than one percent.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-08-26 21:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-08-26 1:39 Initramfs and TMPFS! dwilson24
2005-08-26 19:06 ` Chris Wedgwood
2005-08-26 20:08 ` Kent Robotti
2005-08-26 20:22 ` Chris Wedgwood
2005-08-26 21:34 ` Kent Robotti [this message]
[not found] ` <20050826211231.GA957@Linux.nyc.rr.com>
[not found] ` <20050827004045.GA17686@taniwha.stupidest.org>
2005-08-27 3:21 ` Kent Robotti
2005-08-27 4:11 ` Chris Wedgwood
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-09-03 8:29 Chuck Ebbert
2005-08-27 8:19 Kent Robotti
2005-08-27 21:28 ` Chris Wedgwood
2005-08-27 21:42 ` Lee Revell
2005-08-27 22:45 ` Kent Robotti
2005-08-27 22:42 ` David Weinehall
2005-08-27 22:57 ` Patrick McFarland
2005-08-27 23:38 ` Chris Wedgwood
2005-08-27 23:41 ` Alistair John Strachan
2005-08-28 0:21 ` Patrick McFarland
2005-08-28 5:36 ` Willy Tarreau
[not found] <4Fuuy-6df-11@gated-at.bofh.it>
[not found] ` <4FJMZ-1YX-17@gated-at.bofh.it>
2005-08-26 15:49 ` Bodo Eggert
2005-08-26 6:09 Kent Robotti
2005-08-25 19:32 dwilson24
2005-08-25 19:05 Alan Jenkins
2005-08-26 10:37 ` Erik Mouw
2005-08-26 19:08 ` Chris Wedgwood
2005-08-25 18:23 robotti
2005-08-25 18:15 robotti
2005-08-25 19:10 ` Ian Campbell
2005-08-26 10:29 ` Erik Mouw
2005-08-25 15:38 robotti
2005-08-25 16:00 ` Erik Mouw
2005-08-26 19:10 ` Chris Wedgwood
2005-08-25 15:34 robotti
2005-08-25 15:54 ` Erik Mouw
2005-08-26 15:03 ` Horst von Brand
2005-08-25 4:35 robotti
2005-08-25 13:49 ` Chris Wedgwood
2005-08-25 4:32 robotti
2005-08-25 13:47 ` Chris Wedgwood
2005-08-24 22:41 robotti
2005-08-25 3:12 ` Chris Wedgwood
2005-08-24 3:15 robotti
2005-08-23 22:05 robotti
2005-08-24 2:57 ` Chris Wedgwood
2005-08-24 20:52 ` Wakko Warner
2005-08-24 20:59 ` Chris Wedgwood
2005-08-23 21:16 robotti
2005-08-23 21:24 ` Olivier Galibert
2005-08-25 3:14 ` Chris Wedgwood
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