Re: / on ramfs, possible?

From: H. Peter Anvin (hpa@zytor.com)
Date: Mon Oct 30 2000 - 02:34:01 EST

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Followup to: <200010300727.IAA12250@hell.wii.ericsson.net>
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.

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