Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 27 Jul 2006 13:38:35 -0700 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: patch for Documentation/initrd.txt? |
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Al Boldi wrote: > H. Peter Anvin wrote: >> Al Boldi wrote: >>> Thanks for your very useful docPatch! >>> >>> OT, but your docPatch made me think of another way to init the kernel; >>> via tmpfs, i.e. initTmpFS. >>> >>> Can anybody see how that could be useful? >> Useful, yes, but this has turned out to be fairly complex. > > Sounds like somebody tried this before? >
Several people, yes.
>> tmpfs needs >> a *LOT* more of the system to be fully operational than ramfs, and the >> rootfs is initialized very early on, since one of its purposes is to >> eliminate special cases. > > So would it be possible to remap rootfs from ramfs to tmpfs, once tmpfs is > initialized, without actually doing another cpio?
That sounds nasty.
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