linux-kernel - Re: patch for Documentation/initrd.txt?

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Message-ID: <44C91FEC.1020309@redhat.com>
Date:	Thu, 27 Jul 2006 16:19:56 -0400
From:	Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>
To:	Al Boldi <a1426z@...ab.com>
CC:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: patch for Documentation/initrd.txt?

Al Boldi wrote:
> Tom Horsley wrote:

>> +Compressed cpio images

> OT, but your docPatch made me think of another way to init the kernel; via 
> tmpfs, i.e. initTmpFS.
> 
> Can anybody see how that could be useful?

That is exactly what Tom describes, except it is called initramfs
and goes into ramfs - which is mostly the same as tmpfs.

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