Bodo Eggert wrote: > On Sat, 7 Jul 2007, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > > On Jul 5 2007 19:08, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > > >> BTW: Is it possible to mount a tmpfs on / before extracting the cpio? > > > > > >Not in the stock kernel. There have been some patches floating around > > >for that, I think. > > > > What would it buy? rootfs is a tmpfs, is not it? > > As far as I understand, it is a ramfs aka. non-swappable tmpfs without any > limit and including a chance of DoSing the system. > > Since I'm toying with root-on-initcpio, I'm looking for things that might > make the task some easier. > > Currently I'm thinking about changing the root=initramfs to root=tmpfs and > additionally mounting a tmpfs on / before unpacking the cpios. OTOH, this > seems to be a little bit messy. OTOH again, in _that_ boot code, nobody > should complain :)
Try this "[PATCH] initramfs: Allow rootfs to use tmpfs instead of ramfs". It's trivial and should be in mainline. Thanks! -- Al - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
