Not sure I fully understand....

You basically want two blobs -- the initramfs and the application?

You can expand the initramfs by copying to it...so you mount the application 
and run a script to copy it to initramfs before running it.

marty

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>   ow...@vger.kernel.org] On Behalf Of Jacob Avraham
>   Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2009 11:43 AM
>   To: linux-embedded@vger.kernel.org
>   Subject: ramfs/tmpfs for application partition
>   
>   
>   Hi,
>   
>   I have a system with 128M RAM and a flash partitioned so that 10M is
>   dedicated to initramfs image,
>   6M to application partition. And another 6M for JFFS2.
>   As I have plenty of RAM, I'd like to have my application directory
>   mounted on RAM, from a pre-populated
>   filesystem that resides in the 6M application partition.
>   So basically I want to use the same mechanism as initramfs, but mounted
>   on /my/app/partition instead of root.
>   Does it make sense? How do I go about and do that?
>   
>   
>   Jacob Avraham
>   
>   
>   
>   
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