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From: Lauri Kasanen <cand@gmx.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] rootmpfs
Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2013 17:25:17 +0000 (UTC)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <loom.20130411T192058-26@post.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 1364992208.18069.18@driftwood

Rob Landley <rob <at> landley.net> writes:

> Attached is my quick and dirty hack to make rootfs be tmpfs when  
> CONFIG_TMPFS is
> enabled. It can't be this easy or somebody would have done it in the  
> _eight_years_
> since https://lkml.org/lkml/2006/7/31/145

Hi Rob,

We've been using a variation of the 2006 patch in TinyCore for years. It's 
a fairly essential piece for us, as using it can save several seconds of 
boot time for us.

Since we run in the initramfs, to get size limits and swappability, we used 
to tar the files and switch_root. Both unnecessary steps when the kernel 
could directly unpack to tmpfs.

So consider this a +1 "we use this".

- Lauri


      parent reply	other threads:[~2013-04-11 17:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-04-03 12:30 [RFC] rootmpfs Rob Landley
2013-04-03 12:32 ` Rob Landley
2013-04-05 19:53 ` Byron Stanoszek
2013-04-09 14:52   ` Rob Landley
2013-04-09 17:28     ` Randy Dunlap
2013-04-10 17:23       ` Rob Landley
2013-04-10 13:43 ` Robin Holt
2013-04-11 17:25 ` Lauri Kasanen [this message]

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