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From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
To: Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>
Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH][CFT] per-process namespaces for Linux
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 09:50:47 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <6769.983267447@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0102251048280.25245-100000@weyl.math.psu.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0102251048280.25245-100000@weyl.math.psu.edu>


viro@math.psu.edu said:
> > Have you thought about supporting .tar.gz into ramfs? Creating custom
> > boot images would be simpler.

> *uh*. It's definitely easier to do than it used to be, but I'm
> seriously sceptical about adding more cruft into the thing.

The really neat part of untarring into a ramfs-root is that it allows you 
to remove a whole pile of other unnecessary cruft - ll_rw_blk and all the 
other crap for dealing with block devices and buffer_heads. 

CONFIG_BLK_DEV=n

--
dwmw2



  parent reply	other threads:[~2001-02-27  9:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-02-25 10:44 [PATCH][CFT] per-process namespaces for Linux Manfred Spraul
2001-02-25 16:04 ` Alexander Viro
2001-02-25 19:01   ` Sandy Harris
2001-02-25 19:13     ` Alexander Viro
2001-02-25 21:57       ` Werner Almesberger
2001-02-25 22:39         ` Alexander Viro
2001-02-25 23:51           ` Werner Almesberger
2001-02-26  0:26             ` Alexander Viro
2001-02-26 11:54               ` Marco d'Itri
2001-02-26 12:51                 ` Alexander Viro
2001-02-26 16:43                   ` Alexander Viro
2001-02-27 20:08                     ` Alexander Viro
2001-02-28  7:03                     ` Albert D. Cahalan
2001-02-28  7:14                       ` Alexander Viro
2001-02-28 18:13                         ` David L. Parsley
2001-02-28 18:07                           ` Alexander Viro
2001-02-28 19:06                             ` Ion Badulescu
2001-02-28 19:18                               ` Alexander Viro
2001-02-28 20:17                                 ` Ion Badulescu
2001-02-28  7:51                       ` Alexander Viro
2001-02-25 19:48     ` Arjan van de Ven
2001-02-27  9:50   ` David Woodhouse [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-02-26  1:14 Andries.Brouwer
2001-02-26  1:39 ` Alexander Viro
2001-02-25  5:28 Rick Hohensee
2001-02-25  5:40 ` Alexander Viro
2001-02-25  4:16 Alexander Viro
2001-02-26 16:26 ` Peter J. Braam
2001-02-26 20:23   ` Christoph Hellwig

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