Re: [patch] initrd-archive: untar and mkfs.minix initrd support. Please test.

Pavel Machek (pavel@elf.ucw.cz)
Sun, 11 Jan 1998 10:21:49 +0100


Hi!

> > The romfs is read only. It's solves the problem in no way.
>
> Actually, it does solve it -- you can start with romfs and copy everything
> to a read-write fs.

Well - to which read-write fs? If to ramdrive, you need to first
mke2fs ramdrive, which is probably not what you want. I believe that
this was the whole point of the patch: including mkfs in kernel so
that it can be done 'soon enough'.

Pavel

-- 
I'm really pavel@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz. 	   Pavel
Look at http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/ ;-).