Re: Debian should not modify the kernels!
On Sun, Oct 05, 2003 at 03:18:53PM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
> * Herbert Xu
>
> | Very few people really need cramfs if they're building custom kernels.
> | This is because initrd only makes sense when you're building for a
> | large number of machines. If you're building a custom kernel, just
> | compile in all the drivers you need for mounting root and that's that.
>
> Except if you want to use EVMS or similar on /, in which case you need
> the evms userspace tools on the initrd. (Using 2.6, that is, in 2.4
> the discovery is done in kernel-space.)
Minor correction: with EVMS 1.x (on Linux 2.4), discovery is done in
kernel-space. With EVMS 2.x (on Linux 2.4+device-mapper or Linux 2.6),
discovery is done in user-space. EVMS 1.x does not support Linux 2.6, but
EVMS 2.x does support Linux 2.4.
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- mdz
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