Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 07 Jul 2001 07:34:38 -0400 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: [Acpi] Re: ACPI fundamental locking problems |
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Eugene Crosser wrote: > > In article <Pine.LNX.4.33.0107040956310.1668-100000@penguin.transmeta.com>, > Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com> writes: > > > I don't like the current initrd very much myself, I have to admit. I'm not > > going to accept a "you have to have a ramdisk" approach - I think the > > ramdisks are really broken. > > > > But I've seen a "populate ramfs from a tar-file built into 'bzImage'" > > patch somewhere, and that would be a whole lot more palatable to me. > > Doesn't the approach "treat a chunk of data built into bzImage as > populated ramfs" look cleaner? No need to fiddle with tar format, > no copying data from place to place.
So tell me, how do you populate ramfs without a format which tells you what path and which permissions to assign each file? That's exactly what tar is.
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