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authorRob Landley <rob@landley.net>2013-09-11 14:26:13 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2013-09-11 15:59:38 -0700
commit6e19eded3684dc184181093af3bff2ff440f5b53 (patch)
treef88bf08f0897703bb0d07020e4f921494bd7a434 /Documentation
parent16203a7a9422315bc929461503e3a046459ea5ff (diff)
initmpfs: use initramfs if rootfstype= or root= specified
Command line option rootfstype=ramfs to obtain old initramfs behavior, and use ramfs instead of tmpfs for stub when root= defined (for cosmetic reasons). [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Signed-off-by: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> Cc: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Cc: Stephen Warren <swarren@nvidia.com> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com> Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/ramfs-rootfs-initramfs.txt4
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diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/ramfs-rootfs-initramfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/ramfs-rootfs-initramfs.txt
index 59b4a0962e0..b176928e696 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/ramfs-rootfs-initramfs.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/ramfs-rootfs-initramfs.txt
@@ -79,6 +79,10 @@ to just make sure certain lists can't become empty.
Most systems just mount another filesystem over rootfs and ignore it. The
amount of space an empty instance of ramfs takes up is tiny.
+If CONFIG_TMPFS is enabled, rootfs will use tmpfs instead of ramfs by
+default. To force ramfs, add "rootfstype=ramfs" to the kernel command
+line.
+
What is initramfs?
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