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Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2003 13:39:33 -0800
From: Joel Becker <Joel.Becker@oracle.com>
To: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
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On Sat, Mar 08, 2003 at 11:31:37AM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> Yes, a ramfs partition is the original target.

	Using dd(1) to copy the partition to permanent storage between
boots?  You do have to solve the permanence problem.  I was thinking
more along the lines of /dev staying in /, and the userspace system
updating it at boot.

Joel


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