>On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 12:35:22AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >I don't know, because tar is probably more widely used and >consequently people are more familiar with how to use it. >>As I said before, the cpio format is cleaner/easier to parse in the >>kernel. Everyone has cpio probably so using tar isn't necessary.
Cpio is perhaps as available as tar, but it's not as used as tar. Unless tar would be inordinately larger than a cpio implementation (I can't imagine, but I'm not a coder!) I would prefer it. >But, that is not as important as having the option of using tmpfs >as the initramfs. >>Well, it's not clean that we really want this either. I have some >>niche needs for it but I suspect most people will never use such an >>option. If initramfs replaces the old initrd method it should have something as a filesystem that's robust and inspires confidence like ext2. I know generally an initrd is used to load modules and prepare the installation of a Linux system, so it doesn't require much in a filesystem. But, it can also be used to hold and run a complete Linux system, so a more robust filesystem (tmpfs) is useful. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
