From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from jazzband.ncsc.mil (jazzband.ncsc.mil [144.51.5.4]) by tycho.ncsc.mil (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id h8CEMELa024566 for ; Fri, 12 Sep 2003 10:22:14 -0400 (EDT) Received: from jazzband.ncsc.mil (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by jazzband.ncsc.mil with ESMTP id h8CEMCmw024485 for ; Fri, 12 Sep 2003 14:22:13 GMT Received: from crisium.vnl.com (crisium.vnl.com [194.46.8.33]) by jazzband.ncsc.mil with ESMTP id h8CEMC9d024476 for ; Fri, 12 Sep 2003 14:22:12 GMT Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2003 15:21:31 +0100 From: Dale Amon To: Russell Coker Cc: Dale Amon , Colin Walters , SELinux Mail List Subject: Re: rfs xattr's, mkinitrd and other stories Message-ID: <20030912142131.GA4648@vnl.com> References: <20030910164854.GO5397@vnl.com> <20030910230519.GU5397@vnl.com> <20030910233424.GV5397@vnl.com> <200309111048.16590.russell@coker.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <200309111048.16590.russell@coker.com.au> Sender: owner-selinux@tycho.nsa.gov List-Id: selinux@tycho.nsa.gov On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 10:48:16AM +1000, Russell Coker wrote: > are other file systems that do it better. I suggest using a gzip compressed > romfs, it will be considerably smaller than cramfs for the same file storage > and work more reliably. > > The Debian mkinitrd is more flexible than the Red Hat one. So once you have > the correct scripts dropped in place (as Colin's package does) then you just > create an initrd in the regular fashion. For Red Hat a patch to mkinitrd was > shipped because there is no other way to do it. Do you edit /etc/mkinitrd/mkinitrd.conf to change MKIMAGE='mkcramfs %s %s > /dev/null' to MKIMAGE='genromfs -d %s -f %s > /dev/null' then? Or do you just do it all manually? -- This message was distributed to subscribers of the selinux mailing list. If you no longer wish to subscribe, send mail to majordomo@tycho.nsa.gov with the words "unsubscribe selinux" without quotes as the message.