Re: initrd help -- umounts root after pivot_root

From: H. Peter Anvin (hpa_at_transmeta.com)
Date: 10/31/03

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Date:	31 Oct 2003 13:59:09 -0800

            From: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
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    Followup to: <1067604362.5526.15.camel@tweedy.ksc.nasa.gov>
    By author: Bob Chiodini <robert.chiodini-1@ksc.nasa.gov>
    In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
    >
    > John,
    >
    > It does not appear that the kernel(s) will support the root fs on
    > tmpfs. Looking through the init kernel code: It boils down to a block
    > device with real major and minor number or NFS.
    >

    Baloney. See the SuperRescue CD, for example, for a distro which uses
    exactly this.

            -hpa 

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