Jan Engelhardt wrote:
>
> Come to speak of it, I think you can have it much easier by having the kernel
> exporting the cpio image as a virtual file inside rootfs, so that you could
> re-extract it inside a tmpfs. In other words:
>
> mount -t tmpfs tmpfs /mnt;
> cd /mnt;
> cpio -diuv </initramfs.cpio;
> #
> # switch_root nukes rootfs, pivot_roots and execs some init
> klibc_switch_root .; # or something like that
>
> Of course this needs double the memory than directly mounting tmpfs as
> rootfs, but it's an idea too.
>
Well, we're doing exactly this for non-initramfs initrd, however, it
would definitely be cleaner just to overmount rootfs with a tmpfs before
extraction -- it's an absolutely trivial amount of code; the biggest
complexity would be spotting the kernel command line option to invoke it.
Yet another variant, which works on existing kernels, is to have a
nested cpio, where your rootfs consists of a trivial /init which mounts
tmpfs and extracts another tar- or cpioball.
-hpa
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