From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from gardel.0pointer.net (gardel.0pointer.net [IPv6:2a01:238:43ed:c300:10c3:bcf3:3266:da74]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 31233E8 for ; Wed, 13 Dec 2023 01:03:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from gardel-login.0pointer.net (gardel-mail [85.214.157.71]) by gardel.0pointer.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB58DE80501; Wed, 13 Dec 2023 10:03:07 +0100 (CET) Received: by gardel-login.0pointer.net (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 54EAF16036B; Wed, 13 Dec 2023 10:03:07 +0100 (CET) Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2023 10:03:07 +0100 From: Lennart Poettering To: Nils Kattenbeck Cc: Eric Curtin , initramfs@vger.kernel.org, systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org, Stephen Smoogen , Qubes OS Development Mailing List , Yariv Rachmani , Douglas Landgraf Subject: Re: [RFC] initoverlayfs - a scalable initial filesystem Message-ID: References: Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: initramfs@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: On Di, 12.12.23 23:01, Nils Kattenbeck (nilskemail@gmail.com) wrote: > > sysexts are erofs or squashfs file systems with verity backing. Only > > the sectors you access are decompressed. > > Okay I forgot that they were erofs based and mentioned cpio archives > so I assumed they would be one. > Do they need to be fully read from disk to generate the cpio archive? erofs is a file system, cpio is a serialized archive. Two different things. The discussion here is whether to pass the initrd to the kernel as one or the other. But noone is suggesting to convert one to the other at boot time. Lennart -- Lennart Poettering, Berlin