From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030298AbVH0ELc (ORCPT ); Sat, 27 Aug 2005 00:11:32 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030299AbVH0ELc (ORCPT ); Sat, 27 Aug 2005 00:11:32 -0400 Received: from ylpvm43-ext.prodigy.net ([207.115.57.74]:36308 "EHLO ylpvm43.prodigy.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030298AbVH0ELb (ORCPT ); Sat, 27 Aug 2005 00:11:31 -0400 X-ORBL: [67.124.117.85] Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2005 21:11:25 -0700 From: Chris Wedgwood To: Kent Robotti Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Initramfs and TMPFS! Message-ID: <20050827041125.GA19212@taniwha.stupidest.org> References: <200508260139.j7Q1dFME000555@ms-smtp-03.rdc-nyc.rr.com> <20050826190647.GA12296@taniwha.stupidest.org> <20050826200851.GA851@Linux.nyc.rr.com> <20050826202226.GA13807@taniwha.stupidest.org> <20050826211231.GA957@Linux.nyc.rr.com> <20050827004045.GA17686@taniwha.stupidest.org> <20050827032127.GA4736@Linux.nyc.rr.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050827032127.GA4736@Linux.nyc.rr.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat, Aug 27, 2005 at 03:21:27AM +0000, Kent Robotti wrote: > The purpose of the patch is to overmount ramfs/rootfs with tmpfs before > the compressed cpio archive is unpacked and /init is run. yes and no there are people who want the overmount even without cpio decompression > But, it's only needed because the current initramfs implementation > doesn't offer tmpfs as an option. tmpfs isn't initialized early enough; i've hacked around this but a cleaner solution is needed > /init could just be a symbolic link to /sbin/init, or it could be > some other executable (shell script etc.), but there would be no > need to pivot or move root. pivot is evil, it probably should be depricated