On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 7:04 AM, H. Peter Anvin <h...@zytor.com> wrote: > On 02/05/2013 02:09 PM, Kasatkin, Dmitry wrote: >> >> >> It should not be like that. Actually when pre-init exits, cleanup code >> umount tmpfs, which in turn cleanups the RAM. >> > > It doesn't quite... the rootfs is permanent. This is also only one usage > mode: there are quite a few Linux systems running directly out of initramfs. >
rootfs is not permanent when it is ramfs. It is cleaned up on switch root. It is easy to find out that it is empty by mounting : mount -t ramfs rootfs /mnt/ In the case of running from normal storage, of course, there is ridicules remove the content. - Dmitry > -hpa > > > -- > H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center > I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf. > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
