Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [RFC PATCH] rootfs: force mounting rootfs as tmpfs | From | Rob Landley <> | Date | Thu, 1 Feb 2018 16:46:07 -0600 |
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On 01/31/2018 10:22 PM, Mimi Zohar wrote: > On Wed, 2018-01-31 at 21:03 -0500, Arvind Sankar wrote: >> On Wed, Jan 31, 2018 at 05:48:20PM -0600, Rob Landley wrote: >>> On 01/31/2018 04:07 PM, Mimi Zohar wrote: >>>> On Wed, 2018-01-31 at 13:32 -0600, Rob Landley wrote:>> (The old "I configured in tmpfs and am using rootfs but I want that >>> rootfs >>>>> to be ramfs, not tmpfs" code doesn't seem to be a real-world concern, does >>>>> it?) >>>> >>>> I must be missing something. Which systems don't specify "root=" on >>>> the boot command line. >>> >>> Any system using initrd or initramfs? >>> >> >> Don't a lot of initramfs setups use root= to tell the initramfs which >> actual root file system to switch to after early boot? > > With your patch and specifying "root=tmpfs", dracut is complaining: > > dracut: FATAL: Don't know how to handle 'root=tmpfs' > dracut: refusing to continue
"The kernel can't break this buggy userspace package."
"The kernel must give access to a new feature to this buggy userspace package".
I think kernel policy asks you to pick one, but I could be wrong...
Rob
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