Re: Mounting Filesystem over existing directory

2012-06-01 Thread Sameer Naik
Hello Conrad, First of, I was able to successfully test (very basic testing) unionfs for my case. I used the latest version of unionfs (2.5.11). On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 11:12 PM, Michael Conrad mcon...@intellitree.com wrote: On 5/30/2012 3:08 AM, Sameer Naik wrote: Thanks for the quick

Re: Mounting Filesystem over existing directory

2012-06-01 Thread Laurent Bercot
Out of curiosity, Is is possible to free up the resources used by initramfs. I would be very interested in knowing how this can be done. That is the point of switch_root. When you switch_root from an initramfs to another rootfs, you free up all the initramfs resources. Of course, you can't

[PATCH] modinfo: match more standard module fields and fix version field

2012-06-01 Thread Tanguy Pruvot
Previously, -F version could match the srcversion= string. before : ~ # modinfo -F version tiwlan_drv version:6.1.2012.05.29 version:533BB7E5866E52F63B9ACCB version:0x%x, oui=0x%x, 0x%x, 0x%x version:0x%x ~ # modinfo tiwlan_drv filename:

Re: Mounting Filesystem over existing directory

2012-06-01 Thread Michael Conrad
On 5/31/2012 2:04 AM, Bartos-Elekes Zsolt wrote: Michael Conrad wrote: Unionfs has one problem though: the only way to get correct behavior is to merge path A and B onto mountpoint C. (C can't be the same as A or B). Perhaps this is valid only for older versions of unionfs. I am using

Re: Mounting Filesystem over existing directory

2012-06-01 Thread Michael Conrad
On 6/1/2012 2:42 AM, Laurent Bercot wrote: Out of curiosity, Is is possible to free up the resources used by initramfs. I would be very interested in knowing how this can be done. Initramfs is really just a tmpfs which the kernel copies files into at boot-time. You free it by removing all