On Tue, 5 Aug 2008, Mitul Modi wrote:
> hi Matthias,
>
> for initrd
>
> "This tree can then be archived into a single file using cpio or
> turned into a file-system image either by use of a loopback device
> or a small mountable device. The archive (or image file) can be
> compressed with gzip to further save space."
>
> so initrd can be a cpio archive
just to be clear, from what i read above, the kernel code can still
handle the older filesystem images.
rday
p.s. the "mkinitrd" utility that ships with fedora these days
explicitly builds a cpio-format image, so i'm guessing that cpio is
becoming the initrd image format of choice. not to be confused with
the initramfs image, which is *always* a cpio format.
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