From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@computergmbh.de>
Cc: Bodo Eggert <7eggert@gmx.de>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC][Patch] Allow not mounting a root fs
Date: Sat, 07 Jul 2007 14:17:31 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <469002EB.7030902@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0707072312380.1536@fbirervta.pbzchgretzou.qr>
Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> On Jul 7 2007 13:56, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>> Jan Engelhardt wrote:
>>> On Jul 5 2007 19:08, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>>>>> BTW: Is it possible to mount a tmpfs on / before extracting the cpio?
>>>> Not in the stock kernel. There have been some patches floating around
>>>> for that, I think.
>>> What would it buy? rootfs is a tmpfs, is not it?
>> No, rootfs is ramfs.
>
> Thanks for clarifying. Well, why is it a ramfs, and not tmpfs?
> (I think I know the difference, but the question stands.
> A system without any swap somewhat equals a ramfs, or?)
It gets initialized very early, and a lot of the setup needed for tmpfs
to work isn't ready yet.
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-07-07 21:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-07-06 2:00 [RFC][Patch] Allow not mounting a root fs Bodo Eggert
2007-07-06 2:08 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-07-06 15:00 ` Bodo Eggert
2007-07-06 15:32 ` Dan Aloni
2007-07-06 17:00 ` Andre Noll
2007-07-06 17:16 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-07-07 18:30 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-07-07 20:56 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-07-07 21:13 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-07-07 21:17 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2007-07-18 21:51 ` Rob Landley
2007-07-18 22:50 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-07-18 22:53 ` Roland M. Kruggel
2007-07-07 21:18 ` Bodo Eggert
2007-07-07 21:39 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-07-07 21:45 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-07-07 21:46 ` Willy Tarreau
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-07-08 10:36 Al Boldi
2007-07-11 0:46 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-07-11 4:47 ` Al Boldi
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