On Fridayen den 9 November 2001 16.05, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote:
> Oden Eriksson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > > Fast? When executing at bootup, you mean? I didn't notice that. Maybe
> > > because of dietlibc?...
> >
> > At boot? Does it run at boot I dare to ask...
>
> Well it's "executed" at boot when it loads modules, mounts the rootfs,
> etc.

Executed?, it's not that it's extracted into ram by another software, but 
really _executed_ by its own?

This is a part I would really like to learn more about, but I don't know 
where to look...

> > No, I mean when creating the old plain initrd, like "mkinird -v -f
> > /boot/initrd.img kernel_ver". I keep all sorts of init ramdisk just in
> > case, my lilo.conf is filled with stuff:)
>
> Ok I see. I don't know why it's faster. Probably because it creates a FS
> which is 3 times smaller.

I don't know either, but it's very nice compared to how it were before.

Thanks.

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