From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sat, 10 Mar 2001 19:11:33 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sat, 10 Mar 2001 19:11:24 -0500 Received: from ecstasy.ksu.ru ([193.232.252.41]:215 "EHLO ecstasy.ksu.ru") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sat, 10 Mar 2001 19:11:14 -0500 X-Pass-Through: Kazan State University network Message-ID: <3AAAC179.8020109@ksu.ru> Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2001 03:06:17 +0300 From: Art Boulatov User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux 2.4.0-test10-pre5-reiserfs-3.6.18-acpi-i2c i686; en-US; 0.7) Gecko/20010203 X-Accept-Language: ru, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: filesystem for initrd Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi, I'm in the process of creating a custom "system partition" for out Linux servers, which is actually an initial ramdisk, coming from hd or network on boot to load necessary drivers and perform important checks before the real filesystems get mounted, and I did not find any info on what filesystems can I use for initrd, are there any restrictions? Mostly interested in cramfs, due to it's compression. Could anybody help me work this out or point to the right place for more info? Thanks a lot, Art.