Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 20 May 2003 18:14:20 -0700 (PDT) | From | Mark Dascher <> | Subject | rootfs and /dev/root |
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I'm curious about the two entries in /proc/mounts: rootfs and /dev/root. Although I don't have much experience with this, I've looked through some of the kernel source code (e.g. fs/namespace.c or init/do_mounts.c). All I can come up with (actually, this is pretty much what I thought before I looked at any code) is that rootfs is purely a kernel-generated filesystem. The kernel creates the /dev/root device there, and then mounts /dev/root at / (replacing rootfs).
There were some mentions of 'initrd' too, so I'm not sure if I'm confusing rootfs with an initrd. Could anyone clear this up for me?
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