[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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