Re: cramfs as initrd still fails in 2.4.27-pre2 [PATCH]

From: viro
Date: Fri May 14 2004 - 08:45:52 EST


On Fri, May 14, 2004 at 03:29:55PM +0200, Santiago Garcia Mantinan wrote:
> In Debian official kernel packages cramfs is being used as the initrd, so I
> had a look at Debian's kernel patches and extracted this one that makes
> initrd work for me in 2.4.26 and 2.4.27-pre2:

Patch in debian kernel package is a mindless crap. cramfs has no business
messing with block size (or buffer cache in general, to start with). 2.6
has it fixed the right way, there's a backport to 2.4 and IIRC it was
scheduled for inclusion.
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