>>>>> "Peter" == Peter Seebach <seebs@plethora.net> writes:
    Peter> So, let's say you're doing a mirroring RAID.  Shouldn't it be
    Peter> possible to do / also?  All you really need to do is make sure
    Peter> that the raid is configured before 'mount -u /'.

  One way is with an md0a kernel that mounts the ramdisk as /, runs
an /sbin/init that does the right thing (it could be a shell script), and
then mounts the real file system on top of /, and exec's /sbin/init.

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