Re: CONFIG_RAMFS in 2.4.19-pre7-ac2 ???

H. Peter Anvin
2002-04-22T19:43:54Z

Followup to: <3CC1A1EF.AF524412@kegel.com>
By author: Dan Kegel <dank@kegel.com>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> Roy wrote:
> > After upgrading to 2.4.19-pre7-ac2, I can't get CONFIG_RAMFS
>
> Gee, I hope CONFIG_RAMFS isn't going away. I need it to
> do loopback mounts of cramfs on an embedded system that
> uses tmpfs as its main filesystem. (tmpfs doesn't support
> loopback mounts.)
>

CONFIG_RAMFS is probably going away, but that doesn't mean ramfs is
going away. At least in Linux 2.5 ramfs will end up being required
core code.

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