Re: [PATCH] Initrd Dynamic -- Initramfs's GrandDaddy...(and competition)

Jeff Garzik (jgarzik@pobox.com)
Fri, 01 Nov 2002 06:19:15 -0500


Dave Cinege wrote:

>What this has that initramfs doesn't:
> Clean up and rewrite of the system already in place.
> The use of tar archives
> Multiple archive support
> Works good, right now
>
>

indeed :)

>What initramfs has that this doesn't:
> Load image from a 'linked' kernel location.
> Uses CPIO archives
>
>

early userspace, which is the whole point of the exercise.

We want to move a bunch of stuff _out_ of the kernel to userspace.

Jeff

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