From: Askar Safin <safinaskar@gmail.com>
To: ignat@cloudflare.com
Cc: kernel-team@cloudflare.com, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mnt: add support for non-rootfs initramfs
Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2026 05:47:01 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260225024701.3098089-1-safinaskar@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200305193511.28621-1-ignat@cloudflare.com>
Ignat Korchagin <ignat@cloudflare.com>:
> With this change we can ask the kernel (by specifying nonroot_initramfs kernel
> cmdline option) to create a "leaf" tmpfs mount for us and switch root to it
> before the initramfs handling code, so initramfs gets unpacked directly into
> the "leaf" tmpfs with rootfs being empty and no need to clean up anything.
This problem is solved by nullfs patches:
https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260112-work-immutable-rootfs-v2-0-88dd1c34a204@kernel.org/
They are already in mainline.
--
Askar Safin
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-02-25 2:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-03-05 19:35 [PATCH] mnt: add support for non-rootfs initramfs Ignat Korchagin
2020-03-05 20:21 ` Al Viro
2020-03-05 22:45 ` Ignat Korchagin
2020-03-05 21:09 ` James Bottomley
2020-03-05 22:21 ` Arvind Sankar
2020-03-05 22:53 ` Ignat Korchagin
2020-03-11 14:01 ` Ignat Korchagin
2026-02-25 2:47 ` Askar Safin [this message]
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2021-09-14 17:09 graham
2021-09-14 17:09 ` graham
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