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SubjectRe: initrd help -- umounts root after pivot_root
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	From: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
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Followup to: <1067604362.5526.15.camel@tweedy.ksc.nasa.gov>
By author: Bob Chiodini <robert.chiodini-1@ksc.nasa.gov>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
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> John,
>
> It does not appear that the kernel(s) will support the root fs on
> tmpfs. Looking through the init kernel code: It boils down to a block
> device with real major and minor number or NFS.
>

Baloney. See the SuperRescue CD, for example, for a distro which uses
exactly this.

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