On Sat, Aug 27, 2005 at 03:21:27AM +0000, Kent Robotti wrote: > The purpose of the patch is to overmount ramfs/rootfs with tmpfs before > the compressed cpio archive is unpacked and /init is run.
yes and no there are people who want the overmount even without cpio decompression > But, it's only needed because the current initramfs implementation > doesn't offer tmpfs as an option. tmpfs isn't initialized early enough; i've hacked around this but a cleaner solution is needed > /init could just be a symbolic link to /sbin/init, or it could be > some other executable (shell script etc.), but there would be no > need to pivot or move root. pivot is evil, it probably should be depricated - 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/