[Buildroot] Newbie boot and fs mount question
Thomas Petazzoni
thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Thu Dec 24 07:30:58 UTC 2015
Dear Mathew Benson,
On Wed, 23 Dec 2015 19:04:05 -0600, Mathew Benson wrote:
> I have a possible dumb question. I enabled initrd to be linked into
> the kernel, thinking boot time might be faster. I enabled the
> "remount filesystem" option, thinking that would remount it from the
> hard drive rather than the linked in rootfs. Is that an incorrect
> assumption?
Yes, it is an incorrect assumption. In Buildroot, if you enable
"initial RAM filesystem linked into linux kernel", then the entire
root filesystem lives in RAM, and we never switch to another on-storage
filesystem.
Best regards,
Thomas
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Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering
http://free-electrons.com
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