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On 02/05/2013 02:09 PM, Kasatkin, Dmitry wrote:
>
> It should not be like that. Actually when pre-init exits, cleanup code
> umount tmpfs, which in turn cleanups the RAM.
>

It doesn't quite... the rootfs is permanent.  This is also only one 
usage mode: there are quite a few Linux systems running directly out of 
initramfs.

	-hpa


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