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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: / on ramfs, possible?
Date: 29 Oct 2000 23:34:01 -0800
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By author:    Anders Eriksson <aer-list@mailandnews.com>
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> 
> I want my / to be a ramfs filesystem. I intend to populate it from an 
> initrd image, and then remount / as the ramfs filesystem. Is that at 
> all possible? The way I see it the kernel requires / on a device 
> (major,minor) or nfs.
> 
> Am I out of luck using ramfs as /? If it's easy to fix, how do I fix it?
> 

Use pivot_root instead of the initrd stuff in /proc/sys.

	-hpa

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