On 08/08/2017 07:04 AM, Willy Tarreau wrote: > Hi Thomas, > > On Tue, Aug 08, 2017 at 01:46:25PM +0200, Thomas Meyer wrote: >> Hi, >> >> did the commit 6e19eded3684dc184181093af3bff2ff440f5b53 break a linux kernel >> build with an included ramdisk? >> >> As fas as I understand you must expliclity add rootfstype=ramfs to the kernel >> command line to boot from the included ramfsdisk? >> >> bug or feature? > > Strange, I'm running my kernels with the modules packaged inside the initramfs > and never met this problem even after this commit (my 4.9 kernels are still > packaged this way and run fine). And yes, I do have TMPFS enabled. I can't > tell whether tmpfs or ramfs was used however given that at this level I don't > have all the tools available to report the FS type (and proc says "rootfs"). > Are you sure you're not missing anything ?
If your rootfs has a size= in /proc/mounts it's tmpfs, ala: rootfs / rootfs rw,size=126564k,nr_inodes=31641 0 0 Rob