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Message from Steven
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Czerno wrote:
>
> Yane wrote : 
> > You cannot unmount /DOS, beacuse that is where 
> > the root filesystem is.

That is correct.

> Couldn't the initial script be changed so
> initrd/DOS is mounted as vfat once and for all ? 

No.  The root filesystem is mounted by initfs
and it has no vfat capability.

> I guess the vfat.o module would have to be 
> included in the compressed initial ram disk too, 

Yes, and that would make the initfs ramdisk larger
(and useable ram smaller).  This is bad for low- 
ram systems (since the ram from the initfs ramdisk
cannot be reclaimed while fs.img is mounted).

Cheers,
Steven