On 12/12/13 at 05:25pm, Dave Young wrote: > > Current code use ramfs instead of tmpfs for stub when root= defined. > > But for real use case with initramfs, usually there's like cmdline like > root=UUID=$UUID the root dev is the real device. For that case we have > no way to use initmpfs, thus this patch removes the limitation so tmpfs > can benefit more people. > > The logic become: > if CONFIG_TMPFS && rootfstype is not ramfs > use tmpfs > else > use ramfs >
Discussed with Vivek Goyal about the kdump use case, I missed one thing that tmpfs has default size limit though we can tune it. So I will think more about it, will address this later, please ignore this patch. Thanks Dave -- 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/
