Re: initramfs buffer spec -- second draft

From: Alexander Viro (viro@math.psu.edu)
Date: Sun Jan 13 2002 - 16:59:27 EST


On 13 Jan 2002, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
 
> Which we are reusing for a different purpose. And because of that we
> become trustees of our version of the format. To make it clear that
> someone else defines how this format works a reference to the
> appropriate specification is called for.

We are using it for precisely the same purpose - to put a bunch of
files on a filesystem.
 
> The cases where initramfs will be used are some of the most operating
> specific cases I can imagine. To handle those cases it is necessary
> to support the full breadth of the capability of the operating system.

Huh? It's a bloody archive - collection of files and nothing else.
What "capability of the operating system"?

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