From: "Bryan O'Sullivan" <bos@serpentine.com>
To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Cc: Chris Friesen <cfriesen@nortelnetworks.com>,
Andrey Borzenkov <arvidjaar@mail.ru>,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Is initramfs freed after kernel is booted?
Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2003 10:32:18 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1069093938.18905.9.camel@serpentine.internal.keyresearch.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3FB8ED43.2090102@pobox.com>
On Mon, 2003-11-17 at 07:46, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> You can't unmount rootfs. And I'm not sure pivot_root will work, though
> we're quickly reaching the end of my knowledge[1]. Certainly the
> equivalent of "rm -rf *" will work.
The last time I checked (late 2.5.7x), pivot_root off an initramfs
didn't obviously break. This isn't the same as working correctly, but
nothing clearly wrong happened either.
<b
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-11-17 18:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-11-16 17:09 Andrey Borzenkov
2003-11-16 19:51 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-11-17 14:39 ` Chris Friesen
2003-11-17 15:36 ` "Andrey Borzenkov"
2003-11-17 15:39 ` Chris Friesen
2003-11-17 15:46 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-11-17 18:32 ` Bryan O'Sullivan [this message]
2003-11-17 15:47 ` Kevin P. Fleming
2003-11-17 16:06 ` Chris Friesen
2003-11-17 16:25 ` Erik Mouw
2003-11-17 17:25 ` viro
2003-11-17 17:47 ` viro
2003-11-17 17:50 ` Chris Friesen
2003-11-17 18:03 ` viro
2003-11-17 18:33 ` Andrey Borzenkov
2003-11-17 19:15 ` viro
2003-11-19 14:19 ` Olaf Hering
2003-11-19 15:07 ` Hannes Reinecke
2003-11-25 18:26 ` Manuel Estrada Sainz
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