Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262458AbTK2FiQ (ORCPT ); Sat, 29 Nov 2003 00:38:16 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263650AbTK2FiQ (ORCPT ); Sat, 29 Nov 2003 00:38:16 -0500 Received: from h80ad279a.async.vt.edu ([128.173.39.154]:9121 "EHLO turing-police.cc.vt.edu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262458AbTK2FiP (ORCPT ); Sat, 29 Nov 2003 00:38:15 -0500 Message-Id: <200311290538.hAT5c702013700@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.6.3 04/04/2003 with nmh-1.0.4+dev To: John Zielinski Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Rootfs mounted from user space - problem with umount In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 29 Nov 2003 00:24:31 EST." <3FC82D8F.9030100@undead.cc> From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu References: <3FC82D8F.9030100@undead.cc> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="==_Exmh_-30935206P"; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2003 00:38:07 -0500 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --==_Exmh_-30935206P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On Sat, 29 Nov 2003 00:24:31 EST, John Zielinski said: > + This option switches rootfs so that it uses tmpfs rather than ramfs > + for it's file storage. This makes rootfs swappable so having a large > + initrd or initramfs image won't eat up valuable RAM. I'm missing something - why not use an initrd and pivot_root and then unmount the old root? Seems to work here. --==_Exmh_-30935206P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 iD8DBQE/yDC/cC3lWbTT17ARAnuEAJ9BK8d9wAGg+qJCcE5Y2wI2r4w9fACfRW1d M8iKdS1b6uQqtUOK+1CIXwQ= =AxFd -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_-30935206P-- - 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/