Re: two more oddities with the fs/Kconfig file

Russell King (rmk@arm.linux.org.uk)
Sun, 12 Jan 2003 10:02:29 +0000


On Sun, Jan 12, 2003 at 04:54:54AM -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> so, according to the above, i would *always* get RAMFS, no matter
> what? there's no way to turn this off?

iirc, RAMFS is used for initramfs (which currently provides the basis for
mounting the root filesystem) and therefore must always be enabled.

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