Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sun, 13 Jan 2002 16:59:27 -0500 (EST) | From | Alexander Viro <> | Subject | Re: initramfs buffer spec -- second draft |
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On 13 Jan 2002, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> Which we are reusing for a different purpose. And because of that we > become trustees of our version of the format. To make it clear that > someone else defines how this format works a reference to the > appropriate specification is called for.
We are using it for precisely the same purpose - to put a bunch of files on a filesystem.
> The cases where initramfs will be used are some of the most operating > specific cases I can imagine. To handle those cases it is necessary > to support the full breadth of the capability of the operating system.
Huh? It's a bloody archive - collection of files and nothing else. What "capability of the operating system"?
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