Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932201AbVKYLxw (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 Nov 2005 06:53:52 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932316AbVKYLxw (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 Nov 2005 06:53:52 -0500 Received: from 41-052.adsl.zetnet.co.uk ([194.247.41.52]:25606 "EHLO mail.esperi.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932201AbVKYLxv (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 Nov 2005 06:53:51 -0500 To: Rob Landley Cc: Neil Brown , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Al Viro Subject: Re: pivot_root broken in 2.6.15-rc1-mm2 References: <17283.52960.913712.454816@cse.unsw.edu.au> <200511230543.24353.rob@landley.net> From: Nix X-Emacs: if it payed rent for disk space, you'd be rich. Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2005 11:53:42 +0000 In-Reply-To: <200511230543.24353.rob@landley.net> (Rob Landley's message of "23 Nov 2005 11:44:59 -0000") Message-ID: <87lkzdkkop.fsf@amaterasu.srvr.nix> User-Agent: Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) XEmacs/21.4 (Corporate Culture, linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 742 Lines: 18 On 23 Nov 2005, Rob Landley said: > I wrote Documentation/filesystems/ramfs-rootfs-initramfs.txt just for this > occasion. :) And very damn helpful it was, too; thank you. I didn't really grasp the fundamental difference between initramfs and initrd until now: I thought it was just a matter of storage location (cpio-in-kernel versus image-in-separate-file)... -- `Y'know, London's nice at this time of year. If you like your cities freezing cold and full of surly gits.' --- David Damerell - 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/