Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932434AbVJSDf0 (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Oct 2005 23:35:26 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932444AbVJSDf0 (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Oct 2005 23:35:26 -0400 Received: from ms-smtp-03-smtplb.tampabay.rr.com ([65.32.5.133]:32967 "EHLO ms-smtp-03.tampabay.rr.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932434AbVJSDfZ (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Oct 2005 23:35:25 -0400 Message-ID: <4355BEF4.8000800@cfl.rr.com> Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2005 23:35:16 -0400 From: Phillip Susi User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (X11/20051010) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jeff Bailey CC: John Richard Moser , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, ubuntu-devel Subject: Re: Keep initrd tasks running? References: <4355494C.5090707@comcast.net> <1129663759.18784.98.camel@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <1129663759.18784.98.camel@localhost.localdomain> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1391 Lines: 42 I am confused. I thought that once the initramfs init execs the real init, the initramfs is freed. It can't be freed if there are processes that still have open files there, so that would seem to prevent any processes being started in the initramfs and continuing after the real system is booted. Jeff Bailey wrote: >This is much more easily supported in Breezy. usplash is started at the >top of the initramfs (from the init-top hook) and lives until we start >gdm. > >The biggest constraint is that you don't have write access to the target >root filesystem (since it's mounted readonly). However, /dev is a tmpfs >that is move mounted to the new root system. If you need to have >sockets open or store data, you can use that. usplash does this for its >socket. > >Note that the initramfs startup sequence isn't at all similar to the old >initrd startups. It should be easy for you to cleanly add what you want >under /etc/mkinitramfs/scripts and not have to modify the >initramfs-tools package. /usr/share/doc/initramfs-tools/HACKING >contains some starter information. > >Hope this helps! > >Tks, >Jeff Bailey > > > > > > > - 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/