On Tuesday 07 November 2006 12:29, Andrew Gaffney wrote:
> Roy Marples wrote:
> > Actually, before I do that, let me attack this from another angle.
> > What do you gain from keeping it mounted as a ramdisk?
> > If the answer is performance, well you loose performance at start time as
> > you've lost the deptree.
> >
> > So why would you want to keep it?
>
> read-only nfsroot or any other root that needs to stay read-only

We don't unmount it if root is ro (well, /lib/rcscripts, but it's the same 
thing really).

This is another argument to "keeping it simple and keeping $svcdir always 
mounted in a ramdisk" thread I've started - you may want to chime in on that.

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Gentoo Developer (baselayout, networking)
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