Re: [PATCH 0/3] Add the ability to mount filesystems during initramfs expansion
From: Askar Safin
Date: Sat Jan 24 2026 - 12:42:17 EST
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@xxxxxxxxx>:
> At Plumber's 2024, Lennart Poettering of the systemd project requested
> the ability to overmount the rootfs with a separate tmpfs before
> initramfs expansion, so the populated tmpfs can be unmounted.
This is already solved by [1] and [2]. They are in next.
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20251229-work-empty-namespace-v1-0-bfb24c7b061f@xxxxxxxxxx/
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260112-work-immutable-rootfs-v2-0-88dd1c34a204@xxxxxxxxxx/
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Askar Safin