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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: torvalds@transmeta.com (Linus Torvalds)
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.5.2-pre2 forces ramfs on
Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2001 15:04:40 +0000 (GMT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E16JFbk-00028a-00@the-village.bc.nu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a0bj07$18l$1@penguin.transmeta.com> from "Linus Torvalds" at Dec 26, 2001 04:17:11 AM

> Because it's small, and if it wasn't there, we'd have to have the small
> "rootfs" anyway (which basically duplicated ramfs functionality).

Can ramfs=N longer term actually come back to be "use __init for the RAM
fs functions". That would seem to address any space issues even the most 
embedded fanatic has. 

Alan

  reply	other threads:[~2001-12-26 14:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-12-26  3:41 Keith Owens
2001-12-26  4:17 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-12-26 15:04   ` Alan Cox [this message]
2001-12-26 17:20     ` Legacy Fishtank
2001-12-26 17:36       ` Alexander Viro
2001-12-26 17:52         ` Legacy Fishtank
2001-12-27 10:39         ` Christoph Rohland
2002-01-05 22:35         ` Eric W. Biederman
2001-12-26 22:04     ` Linus Torvalds
2001-12-26  4:26 ` Alexander Viro

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