>On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 11:38:49AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >What if you have a root.cpio.gz that requires 200MB to hold, but you >only have 300MB of memory? > >50% of total memory wouldn't hold it, but 90% etc. would >(tmpfs_size=90%).
>>tmpfs will not help you here. Yes, it can be swapped, but just like >>with ramfs you first need to *unpack* the cpio archive before you can >>even start the "swapon /dev/hda2" command on it. I was making a case for a tmpfs_size option if tmpfs is used for a initramfs, because tmpfs has a default 50% memory limit. >>Same with initrd, btw. If the compressed initrd image, plus the >>uncompressed image, plus the kernel size are larger than the memory >>size, the system will not boot. Right. - 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/
