Re: [PATCH] rootfs (part 1)

Alexander Viro (viro@math.psu.edu)
Wed, 16 May 2001 14:23:21 -0400 (EDT)


On 16 May 2001, Christoph Rohland wrote:

> Why do you use ramfs? Most of it is duplicated in tmpfs and ramfs is a
> minimal _example_ fs. There was some agreement that this should stay
> so.

Because what I need is an absolute minimum. Heck, I don't even use
regular files (in the full variant of patch, that is). They might
become useful, but I can live with mkdir() and mknod(). Moreover,
I want it mounted very early. Right now I'm doing that after initcalls,
but there's a very good reason to move the thing as early as possible.
So the fewer things it uses - the better.

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