Re: [PATCH][CFT] per-process namespaces for Linux

David Woodhouse (dwmw2@infradead.org)
Tue, 27 Feb 2001 09:50:47 +0000

viro@math.psu.edu said:
> > Have you thought about supporting .tar.gz into ramfs? Creating custom
> > boot images would be simpler.

> *uh*. It's definitely easier to do than it used to be, but I'm
> seriously sceptical about adding more cruft into the thing.

The really neat part of untarring into a ramfs-root is that it allows you
to remove a whole pile of other unnecessary cruft - ll_rw_blk and all the
other crap for dealing with block devices and buffer_heads.

CONFIG_BLK_DEV=n

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dwmw2




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