Re: [Ltib] tmpfs as rootfs?

[Stuart Hughes]

Hi Peter,

That's not a stupid question at all.  I don't know the answer, I've not
tried.  However it if works, I think it would be a good thing in some
circumstances.

On a related note, there is some fledgling code in bin/Ltibutils.pm to
support initramfs.  I'm not sure it that might be another option too.
Again I've not really played with this much.

Regards, Stuart

Peter Barada wrote:
> This is probably a stoopid question, but can a tmpfs be used as in place
> of a ramdisk as the root file sytem?
> 
> I'm sure the code that initially copies the data into it requires
> writing, but I'd like to use a tmpfs instead of a ramdisk since a tmpfs
> would allow the rootfs to expand/contract with the amount of available
> RAM instead of being fixed (and requiring "ramdisk_size=" on the command
> line to size it).
> 
> -- 
> Peter Barada <address@hidden <mailto:address@hidden>>
> Logic Product Development, Inc.
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