Messages in this thread |  | | From | Maciek Nowacki <> | Date | Wed, 23 May 2001 16:11:49 -0600 | Subject | Re: Busy on BLKFLSBUF w/initrd |
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On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 06:05:52PM -0400, Alexander Viro wrote: > > > On Wed, 23 May 2001, Maciek Nowacki wrote: > > > May 22 09:14:31 wintermute kernel: RAMDISK: romfs filesystem found at block 0 > > May 22 09:14:31 wintermute kernel: RAMDISK: Loading 28216 blocks [1 disk] into ram disk... done. > > May 22 09:14:31 wintermute kernel: Freeing initrd memory: 28216k freed > > May 22 09:14:31 wintermute kernel: VFS: Mounted root (romfs filesystem) readonly. > > May 22 09:14:31 wintermute kernel: Mounted devfs on /dev > > May 22 09:14:31 wintermute kernel: VFS: Mounted root (romfs filesystem) readonly. > > May 22 09:14:31 wintermute kernel: change_root: old root has d_count=7 > > May 22 09:14:31 wintermute kernel: Mounted devfs on /dev > > May 22 09:14:31 wintermute kernel: Trying to unmount old root ... okay > > At that point /dev/ram0 _is_ killed.
Really? Because I can still mount it later on without any trouble at all.. after init has started. Hmm, I will try later after running the system for a while to see if the data is still comprehensible.
> > Perhaps they're bumping up the reference count so that it is impossible to > > free the ramdisk later? > > If you want to keep it until later (i.e. want to destiry it by hands) > mkdir /initrd on your final root and old one will be remounted there. > Again, "Trying to unmount old root ... okay" means that it already got > an equivalent of BKLFLSBUF
Ah, okay.. I assumed this behavior had been removed. I will try this as well.
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