On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 07:47:35PM +0200, Sasha Levin wrote: > > Another usecase which I've only first heard about couple of days ago is > loading extremely large bzImages. Those images are 300MB+ in size and > come with built in filesystem. Apparently it's some sort of a livecd > variant. > Having a bootable one-file kernel/distro is useful for lots of reasons. Upgrading all my servers by replacing one file not the least of them ;) But since I often run a pile of these simultaneously in vms, I can vouch that this functionality will be very useful indeed. Andrew Walrond Now if only linus will accept the rootfs is tmpfs not ramfs patch... -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
