On Sat, 7 Jul 2007, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > On Jul 5 2007 19:08, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> >> BTW: Is it possible to mount a tmpfs on / before extracting the cpio? > > > >Not in the stock kernel. There have been some patches floating around > >for that, I think. > > What would it buy? rootfs is a tmpfs, is not it? As far as I understand, it is a ramfs aka. non-swappable tmpfs without any limit and including a chance of DoSing the system. Since I'm toying with root-on-initcpio, I'm looking for things that might make the task some easier. Currently I'm thinking about changing the root=initramfs to root=tmpfs and additionally mounting a tmpfs on / before unpacking the cpios. OTOH, this seems to be a little bit messy. OTOH again, in _that_ boot code, nobody should complain :) -- "Whoever said the pen is mightier than the sword obviously never encountered automatic weapons." -Gen. Douglas MacArthur - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
