Hi Peter, On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 3:07 PM, Peter Teoh <[email protected]> wrote: > Read this on the concepts/reasoning of initramfs: > > http://lwn.net/Articles/191004/ > > and then this: > > https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/kernel-team/2009-January/003987.html > > where initramfs is preparing to be removed permanently from distro. > > I got lost reading the lwn.net article above....someone can reword/rephrase > in your own understanding? >
I think you understood fine :-) When I compile a new kernel to Ubuntu I always remove initramfs/initrd support and make my kernel image with built-in drivers to my specific hardware. It makes my system initialization a little more fast. But I don't know if adding all PATA/SATA drivers built-in on kernel will produce a too big kernel image. In other hand a too big image can reduce the performance. > essentially questions are: > > what is the problem with initramfs? and how does it differs from initrd? > strength of initrd over initramfs? > I think there is not a *real* problem with initramfs, but if it can be removed without any performance issues, why not remove it? Recommended reading: Documentation/filesystems/ramfs-rootfs-initramfs.txt > > -- > Regards, > Peter Teoh > Best Regards, Alan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to [email protected] Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ
