Re: Initramfs and TMPFS!

[Erik Mouw]

On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 11:38:49AM -0400, robotti@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> What if you have a root.cpio.gz that requires 200MB to hold, but you
> only have 300MB of memory?
> 
> 50% of total memory wouldn't hold it, but 90% etc. would (tmpfs_size=90%).

tmpfs will not help you here. Yes, it can be swapped, but just like
with ramfs you first need to *unpack* the cpio archive before you can
even start the "swapon /dev/hda2" command on it.

Same with initrd, btw. If the compressed initrd image, plus the
uncompressed image, plus the kernel size are larger than the memory
size, the system will not boot.


Erik

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