Re: 2.4.1: cramfs and initrd
On Sat, Mar 31, 2001 at 01:03:17AM +1000, Glenn McGrath wrote:
>
> Im thinking that iso9600 might be a good format for the initrd, because
> the initrd will be compressed anyway cramfs doesnt save us anything on
> the boot disk.
It really depends on how big the initrd is. For the boot floppies where
it's likely to be small it doesn't matter. But if you're using mkinitrd
with its defaulting, then cramfs is a must if it's going to work on
low memory machines (< 16M).
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