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Rob Landley wrote:
>
> Out of curiosity, do you know which setup? I know that it won't actually
> swap
> anything out yet because no swap is mounted, but I thought that mounting
> tmpfs and doing a swapon afterwards was ok...
>
Nope, I just know that the "obvious" way to do it crashes the ke
On Saturday 07 July 2007 5:17:31 pm H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> > On Jul 7 2007 13:56, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> >> 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?
>
> No
H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Al Boldi wrote:
> > Try this "[PATCH] initramfs: Allow rootfs to use tmpfs instead of
> > ramfs".
> >
> > It's trivial and should be in mainline.
>
> Simple, yes, trivial, no.
>
> It should be pushed to -mm before mainline to give it some smokeout time.
Great, maybe somebod
Al Boldi wrote:
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> Try this "[PATCH] initramfs: Allow rootfs to use tmpfs instead of ramfs".
>
> It's trivial and should be in mainline.
>
Simple, yes, trivial, no.
It should be pushed to -mm before mainline to give it some smokeout time.
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Bodo Eggert wrote:
> 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.
> >
>
On Sat, Jul 07, 2007 at 11:18:59PM +0200, Bodo Eggert wrote:
> 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 f
Jan Engelhardt wrote:
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> Come to speak of it, I think you can have it much easier by having the kernel
> exporting the cpio image as a virtual file inside rootfs, so that you could
> re-extract it inside a tmpfs. In other words:
>
> mount -t tmpfs tmpfs /mnt;
> cd /mnt;
> cpio -diuv #
> # switc
On Jul 7 2007 23:18, Bodo Eggert 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 understa
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
Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> On Jul 7 2007 13:56, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>> 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
On Jul 7 2007 13:56, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>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 w
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?
No, roo
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?
Jan
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Andre Noll wrote:
> On 17:00, Bodo Eggert wrote:
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>> I've put the complete system into initrams, and I just want the kernel to
>> run /sbin/init.
>
> Did you try to exec /sbin/init as the last thing in the init script
> of your initramfs? That worked for me some time ago.
>
Just add a symlink:
On 17:00, Bodo Eggert wrote:
> I've put the complete system into initrams, and I just want the kernel to
> run /sbin/init.
Did you try to exec /sbin/init as the last thing in the init script
of your initramfs? That worked for me some time ago.
Andre
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On Fri, Jul 06, 2007 at 05:00:40PM +0200, Bodo Eggert wrote:
> On Thu, 5 Jul 2007, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>
> > Bodo Eggert wrote:
> > > This patch adds the option to not mount another root filesystem
> > > by specifying root=initramfs.
> >
> > Uhm, the kernel doesn't mount anything if you're usi
On Thu, 5 Jul 2007, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Bodo Eggert wrote:
> > This patch adds the option to not mount another root filesystem
> > by specifying root=initramfs.
>
> Uhm, the kernel doesn't mount anything if you're using an initramfs.
Yes, instead it panics trying to mount the non-existing "
Bodo Eggert wrote:
> This patch adds the option to not mount another root filesystem
> by specifying root=initramfs.
Uhm, the kernel doesn't mount anything if you're using an initramfs.
> BTW: Is it possible to mount a tmpfs on / before extracting the cpio?
Not in the stock kernel. There have
This patch adds the option to not mount another root filesystem
by specifying root=initramfs.
TODO: Documentation
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BTW: Is it possible to mount a tmpfs on / before extracting the cpio?
While I'm at it:
In init/do_mounts.c, mount_root(void):
ROOT_NFS: Is it desirable to use the floppy as a
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