Messages in this thread |  | | From | aer-list@mailandn ... | Subject | Re: / on ramfs, possible? | Date | Wed, 01 Nov 2000 10:16:16 +0100 |
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> On Mon, 30 Oct 2000, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > > > Pardon?! This doesn't make any sense... > > > > The question was: how do switch from the initrd to using the ramfs as /? > > Using pivot_root should do it (after the pivot, you can of course nuke > > the initrd ramdisk.) > > My question is: What do you want to do that for? You can nuke the initrd > ramdisk, but you can't drop the rd.c code, or ll_rw_blk.c code, etc. So > why not just keep your root filesystem in the initrd where it started off? >
Because the stuff on the initrd is not at all what I want in the resultant filesystem. The machine(s) in question are some disk-based some disk-less. I have a system for remote installation/removal of packages (--> the "partition" _has_ to be able to grove/shrink).
The package builder should not have to worry about these details, so the directory hierarcy cannot contain any traces of _how_ the packges got there in the first place.
/Anders
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