From: "Adam J. Richter" <adam@yggdrasil.com>
To: aer-list@mailandnews.com
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: / on ramfs, possible?
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 00:39:37 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200010300839.AAA10601@baldur.yggdrasil.com> (raw)
Anders Eriksson <aer-list@mailandnews.com> writes:
>I want my / to be a ramfs filesystem. I intend to populate it from an
>initrd image, and then remount / as the ramfs filesystem. Is that at
>all possible? The way I see it the kernel requires / on a device
>(major,minor) or nfs.
>
>Am I out of luck using ramfs as /? If it's easy to fix, how do I fix it?
We do that right now with cramfs. You might want to examine
ftp://ftp.yggdrasil.com/pub/dist/booting/make-ramdisk-0.19.tar.gz.
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Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-10-30 8:39 Adam J. Richter [this message]
2000-10-30 8:05 ` cool dev help Akbar A.
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2000-10-30 7:27 / on ramfs, possible? Anders Eriksson
2000-10-30 7:34 ` H. Peter Anvin
2000-10-30 23:24 ` David Woodhouse
2000-10-30 23:26 ` H. Peter Anvin
2000-10-30 23:32 ` David Woodhouse
2000-10-30 23:37 ` H. Peter Anvin
2000-10-30 23:39 ` Jeff Garzik
2000-11-01 9:16 ` aer-list
2000-10-30 12:42 ` Alan Cox
2000-10-30 20:09 ` Stuart Lynne
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