[v2] [PATCH 0/2] Populate rootfs asynchronously and early

[Andy Whitcroft]

On Tue, Dec 08, 2009 at 11:44:34AM +0200, Surbhi Palande wrote:
> populate_rootfs() is called asynchronously to reduce the boot time.

This comment I made on a previous version, but it got lost in my last
round of comments so I repeat it here:

This could do with some more words of explanation.  We should be telling
them why this is true and why it is safe.

"The expansion of the initramfs is completely independant of other boot
activities.  The original data is already present at boot and the
filesystem is not required until we are ready to start init.  It is
therefore reasonable to populate the rootfs asynchronously.  Move this
processing to an async call."

-apw