Re: Rootfs mounted from user space - problem with umount

From: Valdis . Kletnieks
Date: Sat Nov 29 2003 - 00:39:14 EST


On Sat, 29 Nov 2003 00:24:31 EST, John Zielinski <grim@xxxxxxxxx> said:

> + This option switches rootfs so that it uses tmpfs rather than ramfs
> + for it's file storage. This makes rootfs swappable so having a large
> + initrd or initramfs image won't eat up valuable RAM.

I'm missing something - why not use an initrd and pivot_root and then
unmount the old root? Seems to work here.

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