From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263646AbTJaV7c (ORCPT ); Fri, 31 Oct 2003 16:59:32 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263647AbTJaV7c (ORCPT ); Fri, 31 Oct 2003 16:59:32 -0500 Received: from neon-gw-l3.transmeta.com ([63.209.4.196]:32779 "EHLO neon-gw.transmeta.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263646AbTJaV7b (ORCPT ); Fri, 31 Oct 2003 16:59:31 -0500 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: hpa@transmeta.com (H. Peter Anvin) Subject: Re: initrd help -- umounts root after pivot_root Date: 31 Oct 2003 13:59:09 -0800 Organization: Transmeta Corporation, Santa Clara CA Message-ID: References: <1067604362.5526.15.camel@tweedy.ksc.nasa.gov> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: H. Peter Anvin MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Comment-To: Bob Chiodini Disclaimer: Not speaking for Transmeta in any way, shape, or form. Copyright: Copyright 2003 H. Peter Anvin - All Rights Reserved Followup to: <1067604362.5526.15.camel@tweedy.ksc.nasa.gov> By author: Bob Chiodini In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > John, > > It does not appear that the kernel(s) will support the root fs on > tmpfs. Looking through the init kernel code: It boils down to a block > device with real major and minor number or NFS. > Baloney. See the SuperRescue CD, for example, for a distro which uses exactly this. -hpa -- at work, in private! If you send me mail in HTML format I will assume it's spam. "Unix gives you enough rope to shoot yourself in the foot." Architectures needed: ia64 m68k mips64 ppc ppc64 s390 s390x sh v850 x86-64