I will read them and if any question, I will post again.
Thanks,
Best Regards,
Daniel (Youngwhan) Song
On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 7:48 PM, Joel Fernandes <agnel.joel@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
inird:
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-initrd.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Initrd
ramdisk:
http://www.vanemery.com/Linux/Ramdisk/ramdisk.html
In recent times, ramdisk in the context of an initrd is really a
misnomer and is more accurately an "initramfs" - cpio archive that is
extracted into a tmpfs on boot. Earlier, initrds used to images that
could be loopback mounted. Same effect except that the tmpfs method
doesn't need a filesystem driver.
A RAM disk is a device in /dev/ram* that shares a dedicated portion of
your RAM and can be configured with a kernel parameter ramdisk_size.
Unlike a tmpfs, this memory is not swappable and can't be shared by
the kernel.
-Joel
On 12/16/09, Daniel (Youngwhan) Song <breadncup@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> initrd is also RAM disk, then what is major difference between initrd and
> regular RAM disk?
>
> Best Regards,
> Daniel (Youngwhan) Song
>
