Re: Embedding rootfs with kernel

[Marc St-Jean <Marc_St-Jean@pmc-sierra.com>]

I was also looking at initramfs but from documentation I found it,
appears to expand the cpio.gz into a tmpfs (i.e. RAM) before using
it.

Since the cpio.gz is embedded into the kernel (i.e. RAM again),
won't this take twice the memory relative to embedding a
cramfs/squashfs directly in the kernel?

We only need read-only access and I believe these file systems
can be read in their compressed form without expanding and
consuming more RAM.

Marc


Domen Puncer wrote:
> On 05/02/07 12:41 -0800, Marc St-Jean wrote:
>  > What is the MIPS-way of embedding the rootfs with the kernel?
> 
> For 2.6.x (on all? architectures) initramfs.
> 
> 
>         Domen
>