[vserver] ramFS Host

From: Michael S. Zick <mszick_at_morethan.org>
Date: Thu 03 Jan 2008 - 14:30:42 GMT
Message-Id: <200801030830.44854.mszick@morethan.org>

Group,

A somewhat abstract question today ...

The usual protocol for a kernel booting with an initial ramFS (early userspace);
is for the setup and whatever initialization be done in the ramFS image;
then switch_root (which removes the initial ramFS contents) to the "run time"
storage media (yea, everyone here knows that) ...

But the size of a truly minimal VServer host image (logging, sshd, ntpd, network tables)
is not very big (target system is a mini-laptop (EeePC) with at least 0.5Gb ram) - -
Why "switch_root" for the host?
Why not just bring up the first (most likely only) user context as a vserver on the
run-time media - let the host context continue to run in ramFS?

Technically, it looks like it should work - -
Anybody tried this sort of setup? Any practical problems encountered?
Of course, this setup would hold a few Mbytes of disk buffers out of the pool,
but the machine has a lot of ram, I don't think they would be missed.

Mike
Received on Thu Jan 3 14:31:05 2008

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