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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
Cc: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@computergmbh.de>,
	Bodo Eggert <7eggert@gmx.de>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC][Patch] Allow not mounting a root fs
Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2007 15:50:00 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <469E9918.8040907@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200707181751.10276.rob@landley.net>

Rob Landley wrote:
> 
> Out of curiosity, do you know which setup?  I know that it won't actually swap 
> anything out yet because no swap is mounted, but I thought that mounting 
> tmpfs and doing a swapon afterwards was ok...
> 

Nope, I just know that the "obvious" way to do it crashes the kernel
horribly.  It looks based on the patchsets that have flown about
recently as it's mostly a matter of initializing the icache.

	-hpa

  reply	other threads:[~2007-07-18 22:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-07-06  2:00 Bodo Eggert
2007-07-06  2:08 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-07-06 15:00   ` Bodo Eggert
2007-07-06 15:32     ` Dan Aloni
2007-07-06 17:00     ` Andre Noll
2007-07-06 17:16       ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-07-07 18:30   ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-07-07 20:56     ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-07-07 21:13       ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-07-07 21:17         ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-07-18 21:51           ` Rob Landley
2007-07-18 22:50             ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2007-07-18 22:53               ` Roland M. Kruggel
2007-07-07 21:18     ` Bodo Eggert
2007-07-07 21:39       ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-07-07 21:45         ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-07-07 21:46       ` Willy Tarreau
2007-07-08 10:36 Al Boldi
2007-07-11  0:46 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-07-11  4:47   ` Al Boldi

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