Eric Seppanen wrote:
>
> On Thu, Mar 22, 2001 at 09:11:36AM +0000, David Woodhouse wrote:
> >
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
> > > copy compressed initrd (ramdisk) image to ram
> >
> > Why do this copy? Why not just have the real Linux kernel deal with the
> > flash chip too, and mount a cramfs from there?
>
> Because it's really, really easy to just let the ramdisk be read/write. I
> can do logging and other necessary things (temp files, lock file,
> whatever) without worrying about how to do it. All the changes are simply
> lost every reboot, but that's OK in my case.
>
Use ramfs (not "C"ramfs) if you really want some kind of ramdisk.
Currently
our sample implementation use a CRAMFS root and RAMFS for /tmp.
Ollie
