Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 25 Aug 2005 06:49:31 -0700 | From | Chris Wedgwood <> | Subject | Re: Initramfs and TMPFS! |
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On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 12:35:22AM -0400, robotti@godmail.com wrote:
> I don't know, because tar is probably more widely used and > consequently people are more familiar with how to use it.
As I said before, the cpio format is cleaner/easier to parse in the kernel. Everyone has cpio probably so using tar isn't necessary.
> But, that is not as important as having the option of using tmpfs > as the initramfs.
Well, it's not clean that we really want this either. I have some niche needs for it but I suspect most people will never use such an option. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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