Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 30 Oct 2000 23:24:57 +0000 (GMT) | From | David Woodhouse <> | Subject | Re: / on ramfs, possible? |
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On 29 Oct 2000, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> > I want my / to be a ramfs filesystem. I intend to populate it from an > > initrd image, and then remount / as the ramfs filesystem. Is that at > > all possible? The way I see it the kernel requires / on a device > > (major,minor) or nfs. > > > > Am I out of luck using ramfs as /? If it's easy to fix, how do I fix it? > > > > Use pivot_root instead of the initrd stuff in /proc/sys.
Urgh. Then you're still using an initrd, and you still have to include all the crap necessary to support those horrid block-device thingies.
Why not just use a ramdisk?
-- dwmw2
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