Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263605AbTKQRwT (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Nov 2003 12:52:19 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263607AbTKQRwS (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Nov 2003 12:52:18 -0500 Received: from zcars04f.nortelnetworks.com ([47.129.242.57]:52697 "EHLO zcars04f.nortelnetworks.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263605AbTKQRwR (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Nov 2003 12:52:17 -0500 Message-ID: <3FB90A6A.4050505@nortelnetworks.com> Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2003 12:50:34 -0500 X-Sybari-Space: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 From: Chris Friesen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.8) Gecko/20020204 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk Cc: "Kevin P. Fleming" , Andrey Borzenkov , Jeff Garzik , linux-kernel Subject: Re: Is initramfs freed after kernel is booted? References: <3FB8EBC2.1080800@nortelnetworks.com> <3FB8ED91.3050305@backtobasicsmgmt.com> <3FB8F218.30601@nortelnetworks.com> <20031117172557.GX24159@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 915 Lines: 28 viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk wrote: > On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 11:06:48AM -0500, Chris Friesen wrote: >>Anyone know why it overmounts rather than pivots? > Because amount of extra code you lose that way takes more memory than > empty roots takes. > > Remove whatever files you don't need and be done with that. How do you remove files from the old rootfs after the new one has been mounted on top of it? Chris -- Chris Friesen | MailStop: 043/33/F10 Nortel Networks | work: (613) 765-0557 3500 Carling Avenue | fax: (613) 765-2986 Nepean, ON K2H 8E9 Canada | email: cfriesen@nortelnetworks.com - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/