Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2005 13:38:50 -0700
From: Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com>
To: ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Keep initrd tasks running?
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On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 12:22:11AM -0400, John Richard Moser wrote:
> Phillip Susi wrote:
> > 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.
> > 
> 
> AFAIK it's pivoted and then umounted, which frees it.  This doesn't mean
> it has to be freed..  . .

It is neither pivoted nor unmounted.

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