Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: ipw2200 | From | Miles Bader <> | Date | Thu, 15 Dec 2005 11:38:53 +0900 |
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Ben Slusky <sluskyb@paranoiacs.org> writes: >> I confess I don't see the cpio as being easier to create. You >> presumably still want to include the modules from the fresh built >> kernel, so creating a new cpio file would seem needed for most >> people. > > cpio files are somewhat easier to create in that they can created by > an unprivileged user. Most of the steps in making an initrd can only > be done by root.
Initrds are also annoying because you have to guess/calculate a "disk" size big enough to hold all the contents and inevitably waste some space providing a margin for error.
Initrd seems at best a kind of kludge anyway; initramfs is just all-around a cleaner concept.
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