[klibc] Query regarding initramfs

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Mon Apr 4 22:24:48 PDT 2005


Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> 
> Would that give mountfs mount --bind support?
 >

No, but I think removing the nouser flag would.

> 
> Last I looked that wasn't there and it gave udev coniption fits.
> 
> As for ramfs vs tmpfs a tmpfs option is nice but I think some users without swapspace
> would be annoyed if they had to use a tmpfs.
>

Why?  tmpfs without swap is pretty much equivalent to ramfs; I guess if 
tmpfs is compiled out you'd want it to fall back to ramfs.

	-hpa



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