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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: CONFIG_RAMFS in 2.4.19-pre7-ac2 ???
Date: 22 Apr 2002 12:43:41 -0700
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Followup to:  <3CC1A1EF.AF524412@kegel.com>
By author:    Dan Kegel <dank@kegel.com>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
> 
> Roy wrote:
> > After upgrading to 2.4.19-pre7-ac2, I can't get CONFIG_RAMFS
> 
> Gee, I hope CONFIG_RAMFS isn't going away.  I need it to
> do loopback mounts of cramfs on an embedded system that
> uses tmpfs as its main filesystem.  (tmpfs doesn't support
> loopback mounts.)
> 

CONFIG_RAMFS is probably going away, but that doesn't mean ramfs is
going away.  At least in Linux 2.5 ramfs will end up being required
core code.

	-hpa
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