On Wednesday 30 October 2002 2:40, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> untar - cpio is better.
CPIO is commonly used and supported by NO ONE. (rpm, whoppee)
Kernels even come tar'ed. KISS....
> initrd - 99% moved out of the kernel
Great...you just killed the high level embedded linux market, and
the ability to play boot games from GRUB. (Network, etc)
Initrd is a good **OPTION* to have to fall back on...
> do_mounts - moved out of the kernel completely
And he's willing to completely purge initrd and do_mounts NOW???
> initramfs - should be ready for Linus in the next day or so.
Fire away with the 100K+ bloated POS. I'm backwards compatible,
could easily add 'linked kernel image' support, and only increase
the current code by 20K.
> None of that junk -- and a whole lot more -- needs to be in the kernel
> at all.
Do you have any serious sysadmin, clustering, or emebedded system
IMPLEMENTATION experience?
Dave
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