[PATCH] mkinitrd rescue mode - now crypto

Peter Jones pjones at redhat.com
Thu Jun 9 21:13:39 UTC 2005


On Thu, 2005-06-09 at 16:29 -0400, Jeff Layton wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-06-08 at 13:15 -0400, Michael H. Warfield wrote:
> > Any idea when the
> > switchroot thing will be fixed to completely free up the initramfs
> > thing?
> 
> Looks like Peter incorporated a slightly modified version of my patch
> into mkinitrd-4.2.16. I've been working with it today and that version
> of nash seems to work, but it's tough to tell whether it's actually
> cleaning things up or not.
> 
> Is there some way to tell whether it's actually cleaning things up?
> Where would this memory allocation show up under /proc/meminfo? Perhaps
> I can roll a large initramfs image, and see if there is a difference
> with and without this nash patch in how memory is allocated...

Well, there is the scary echo/cd hack patch that was attached to one of
those bugs...
-- 
        Peter




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