ramdisk

[David Jones]

The pivot_root was what I meant in the last email.  I
too was turning on most of the busybox features.

Dave

--- Francois-Rene Rideau <fare@tunes.org> wrote:
> Dear George,
> 
> I think the initial ramdisk should rather take a
> "maximal" view
> of busybox features, so as to serve as a debug tool.
> The idea is that when a proper root filesystem is
> mounted, we ought
> to be able to get rid of the initial ramdisk with
> the pivot_root command
> - and then the space used by ramdisk is reclaimed.
> Whereas a nasty missing feature CAN matter a lot
> when you need it,
> and doesn't take that much space anyway, really.
> I mean, you were willing to sacrifice 2MB
> permanently to WinCE
> - why not sacrifice 400kB temporarily to a more
> featureful busybox?
> 
> Cheers!
> 
> [ François-René ÐVB Rideau | Reflection&Cybernethics
> | http://fare.tunes.org ]
> [  TUNES project for a Free Reflective Computing
> System  | http://tunes.org  ]
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> comes dressed in overalls
> and looks like work.	-- T. A. Edison
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