From: Chris Friesen <cfriesen@nortelnetworks.com>
To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Cc: Andrey Borzenkov <arvidjaar@mail.ru>,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Is initramfs freed after kernel is booted?
Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2003 09:39:53 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3FB8DDB9.8080709@nortelnetworks.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3FB7D52A.7020402@pobox.com
Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Andrey Borzenkov wrote:
>
>> Apparently not:
>>
>> {pts/1}% head -2 /proc/mounts
>> rootfs / rootfs rw 0 0
>> /dev/root / reiserfs rw 0 0
>>
>> at least it is still mounted. Is there any way to free it?
> rootfs is always present. It's the root, as the name implies :)
He's got two root filesystems, one on top of the other. It should be
possible to pivot root rather than mount the second one, thus freeing up
the memory from the initramfs.
Chris
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-11-17 14:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-11-16 17:09 Is initramfs freed after kernel is booted? Andrey Borzenkov
2003-11-16 19:51 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-11-17 14:39 ` Chris Friesen [this message]
2003-11-17 15:36 ` "Andrey Borzenkov"
2003-11-17 15:39 ` Chris Friesen
2003-11-17 15:46 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-11-17 18:32 ` Bryan O'Sullivan
2003-11-17 15:47 ` Kevin P. Fleming
2003-11-17 16:06 ` Chris Friesen
2003-11-17 16:25 ` Erik Mouw
2003-11-17 17:25 ` viro
2003-11-17 17:47 ` viro
2003-11-17 17:50 ` Chris Friesen
2003-11-17 18:03 ` viro
2003-11-17 18:33 ` Andrey Borzenkov
2003-11-17 19:15 ` viro
2003-11-19 14:19 ` Olaf Hering
2003-11-19 15:07 ` Hannes Reinecke
2003-11-25 18:26 ` Manuel Estrada Sainz
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