as it is possible to boot a whole linux system from network with no local harddisk (pxe should be the keyword), i see no issue with that besides being a little more complicated for updates :) (as you need to patch the file on the server and re-pack it - afairc) please tell us about your progress! cheers, raoul On Thu, 3 Jan 2008 08:30:42 -0600, "Michael S. Zick" <mszick@morethan.org> wrote: > Group, > > A somewhat abstract question today ... > > The usual protocol for a kernel booting with an initial ramFS (early > userspace); > is for the setup and whatever initialization be done in the ramFS image; > then switch_root (which removes the initial ramFS contents) to the "run > time" > storage media (yea, everyone here knows that) ... > > But the size of a truly minimal VServer host image (logging, sshd, ntpd, > network tables) > is not very big (target system is a mini-laptop (EeePC) with at least > 0.5Gb ram) - - > Why "switch_root" for the host? > Why not just bring up the first (most likely only) user context as a > vserver on the > run-time media - let the host context continue to run in ramFS? > > Technically, it looks like it should work - - > Anybody tried this sort of setup? Any practical problems encountered? > Of course, this setup would hold a few Mbytes of disk buffers out of the > pool, > but the machine has a lot of ram, I don't think they would be missed. > > Mike -- ____________________________________________________________________ DI (FH) Raoul Bhatia M.Sc. email. r.bhatia@ipax.at Technischer Leiter IPAX - Aloy Bhatia Hava OEG web. http://www.ipax.at Barawitzkagasse 10/2/2/11 email. office@ipax.at 1190 Wien tel. +43 1 3670030 FN 277995t HG Wien fax. +43 1 3670030 15 ____________________________________________________________________