Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 17 Nov 2003 10:39:46 -0500 | From | Chris Friesen <> | Subject | Re: Is initramfs freed after kernel is booted? |
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Andrey Borzenkov wrote:
> my example is after pivot_root. I still have two roots. > > To clarify. I want to replace initrd with initramfs. Given all > the stuff may be put in it can easily be expanded to a couple of MBs. > initrd frees this. I do not want to waste RAM to leave them in initramfs.
Absolutely, the memory should be reclaimed. I would have thought that you could just unmount it--if the pivot_root is done properly there shouldn't be any references left to the initramfs.
Jeff?
Chris
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