Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 26 Dec 2001 12:36:09 -0500 (EST) | From | Alexander Viro <> | Subject | Re: 2.5.2-pre2 forces ramfs on |
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On Wed, 26 Dec 2001, Legacy Fishtank wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 26, 2001 at 03:04:40PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote: > > > Because it's small, and if it wasn't there, we'd have to have the small > > > "rootfs" anyway (which basically duplicated ramfs functionality). > > > > Can ramfs=N longer term actually come back to be "use __init for the RAM > > fs functions". That would seem to address any space issues even the most > > embedded fanatic has. > > Nifty idea... We could use __rootfs or similar in the module.
Um, folks - rootfs does _not_ go away after you mount final root over it. Having absolute root always there makes life much simpler in a lot of places...
What's more, quite a few ramfs methods are good candidates for library functions, since they are already shared with other filesystems and number of such cases is going to grow.
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