Re: [RFD w/info-PATCH] device arguments from lookup, partion code inuserspace

From: Linus Torvalds (torvalds@transmeta.com)
Date: Sat May 19 2001 - 14:37:00 EST


On Sat, 19 May 2001, Brad Boyer wrote:
>
> If I understand the status of stuff correctly, I think this would make it
> a lot more painful to admin if it became a requirement to use initrd on
> everything just to be able to boot.

Don't get too hung up on initrd. Symbolic links really _are_ workable ways
to basically cache the information across boots, and the real problems are
elsewhere.

                Linus

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