On Wed, 2023-11-01 at 06:35 -0500, Rob Landley wrote: > On 10/31/23 11:56, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 31, 2023 at 11:44:17AM -0400, Stefan Berger wrote: > >> rootfs currently does not use tmpfs if the root= boot option is passed > >> even though the documentation about rootfs (added in 6e19eded3684) in > >> Documentation/filesystems/ramfs-rootfs-initramfs.rst states: > >> > >> 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. > > > > At this point in time, is there even any difference between ramfs and > > tmpfs anymore? Why would you want to choose one over the other here? > > I submitted a patch to fix this to the list multiple times, which got ignored as > always. Most recently here: > > https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/8244c75f-445e-b15b-9dbf-266e7ca666e2@xxxxxxxxxxx/ Rob, the patch set wasn't upstreamed, but it certainly wasn't ignored. There were multiple comments. Can you at least re-post "[PATCH 5/5] fix rootfstype=tmpfs" after addressing the checkpatch.pl complaints? -- thanks, Mimi
