Amit D Chaudhary wrote:
> To summarize, pivot_root has been a life saver as the earlier real_root_dev
> might not have been useful in this case.
The whole old change_root mechanism with real_root_dev is best forgotten
quickly ;-) It's also completely helpless as soon as you fire off some
kernel threads that don't call exit_fs.
> Not using the ramfs limits for now, will do soon.
BTW, if you can't free the RAM disk, you may have to apply
http://icawww1.epfl.ch/~almesber/patches/rdfree
- Werner
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