Re: Ramdisk support

From: Kris Kennaway <kris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 03:13:46 -0500

On Wed, Nov 15, 2006 at 01:35:14PM +0530, Aditya Godbole wrote:

On 11/15/06, Kris Kennaway <kris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

What are the alternatives if I want to mount a root filesytem from ram?

man mdconfig

I'm sorry, I couldn't quite get what I was looking for from the
manpage. How do I use mdconfig to mount the root filesystem?

See related documentation, e.g. md(4).

Kris

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