On 2013-09-01 12:31 AM, Canek Peláez Valdés <[email protected]> wrote:
Of course, support for an initramfs is not actually a file system (it's not even in the File systems section of the kernel configuration, is in General setup); it's not possible to have initramfs as a module (that would make no sense at all); and it's code that is several orders of magnitude more simpler than the one used by ext4 (or any other journal file system).
Is there any reason that the creation, use and maintenance of the initramfs couldn't be as simple as a checkbox in the kernel config, so that running 'make' after the kernel was configured would automatically build it? Then, all I'd have to do is move it into /boot along with the new kernel (just like I do now), with *nothing* else required, and the kernel would call it, and things would just work (as long as it was there and I didn't forget to copy it to /boot).
