Re: [klibc] klibc and what's the next step?

Michael Tokarev
2006-07-11T17:46:14Z

Olaf Hering wrote:
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> To create the initrd you needed a loop file, at least for ext2, minix etc.

It's just damn trivial to pack your files into cpio archive and gzip it.
No need for any filesystem code in kernel, be it ext2, minix or other.

initrd => initramfs conversion (what you said I "force" on users) is
to switch from loop+whatever-fs-du-jur to plain dirrectory and cpio,
and to add the final mount+run_init into the initrd script. And after
that's done, everything becomes good... ;)

> But so far, the arguments are not convincing that kinit has to be in the
> kernel tree.

Here, I agree.

/mjt