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Re: Overriding the 'mkcramfs' define in Makefile



On Mon, Aug 23, 2004 at 04:12:48PM -0700, Joshua Kwan wrote:
> On Mon, 23 Aug 2004 16:09:14 +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> > powerpc 2.6 is the only other thing using a cramfs initrd. I think that
> > option should work fine for it too, so maybe just add it in the define.
> 
> Is there a reason why it's strongly preferable to use an ext2 initrd? I
> was simply uninterested in having to build a bunch of filesystems into the
> kernel while modularizing everything.

ext2 images seem to come out a little bit smaller for me, but that's
about it.

-- 
Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]



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