linux-kernel - Re: INITRAMFS_SOURCE broken by 6e19eded3684dc184181093af3bff2ff440f5b53?

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Date:   Wed, 9 Aug 2017 05:30:11 +0200
From:   Willy Tarreau <w@....eu>
To:     Rob Landley <rob@...dley.net>
Cc:     Thomas Meyer <thomas@...3r.de>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: INITRAMFS_SOURCE broken by
 6e19eded3684dc184181093af3bff2ff440f5b53?

On Tue, Aug 08, 2017 at 05:12:03PM -0500, Rob Landley wrote:
> If your rootfs has a size= in /proc/mounts it's tmpfs, ala:
> 
>   rootfs / rootfs rw,size=126564k,nr_inodes=31641 0 0

You're right, I have it and thought about it. Anyway the point is that
it works transparently for me. Apparently for Thomas there's an issue
where his initramfs isn't properly extracted and he ends up with an
empty rootfs.

Willy