Re: Some Questions

Gday All,
isn't it also undesirable to use CF as a constantly used medium?
(eg. a swap file) as the card wears out .... or is old stuff only?
(I think my Sandisk stuff has lifetime warranty so I don't know how
they work that one out and still make $ !!!)
ps. Having a rootfs in ram is necessary to allow hotplug isnt it?
   (of other devices)
pps. Isnt ram massively faster?
   (I've noticed huge differences in transfer rates by copying my
    bootup files and rootfs into ram (My Documents) and booting from
   there (> 1/3 success rate and much faster execution)

Marcus

On Mon, 16 Aug 2004 14:06:53 +0200
Michael Opdenacker <michael_at_free-electrons.com> wrote:

> Hi Dom,
>
> >> - Why do we need a initrd? Alle we need to do is mount the Ext2 and
> >> get the
> >> rootfs (that should fit in the kernel).
> >
> > Some stuff needed for that (pcmcia) works a lot better as a module, so
> > that forces us to use a initrd.
>
> In addition, it's probably easier to mount the CF card, mount the ext2
> partition from the right file and pivot_root to it from a script in
> initrd, than doing it through kernel boot parameters (I don't know how
> to do it this way).
>
> :-)
>
> Michael.
>
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Received on Fri Aug 20 2004 - 08:04:20 EDT