From: Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com>
To: ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Keep initrd tasks running?
Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2005 13:38:50 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051023203850.GM10501@alcor.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4355C9F3.40004@comcast.net>
On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 12:22:11AM -0400, John Richard Moser wrote:
> Phillip Susi wrote:
> > I am confused. I thought that once the initramfs init execs the real
> > init, the initramfs is freed. It can't be freed if there are processes
> > that still have open files there, so that would seem to prevent any
> > processes being started in the initramfs and continuing after the real
> > system is booted.
> >
>
> AFAIK it's pivoted and then umounted, which frees it. This doesn't mean
> it has to be freed.. . .
It is neither pivoted nor unmounted.
--
- mdz
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-10-23 20:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-10-18 19:13 Keep initrd tasks running? John Richard Moser
2005-10-18 19:29 ` Jeff Bailey
2005-10-18 19:38 ` John Richard Moser
2005-10-18 21:43 ` Jeff Bailey
2005-10-19 3:35 ` Phillip Susi
2005-10-19 4:22 ` John Richard Moser
2005-10-19 18:52 ` Phillip Susi
2005-10-23 20:40 ` Matt Zimmerman
2005-10-23 20:38 ` Matt Zimmerman [this message]
2005-10-18 19:37 ` linux-os (Dick Johnson)
2005-10-19 11:07 ` Denis Vlasenko
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