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Re: Bug#291375: marked as done (initrd-tools for Debian are one big mess)



On Tue, May 17, 2005 at 10:47:17PM +0200, maximilian attems wrote:
> afaik the strong point is that initramfs uses klibc and non glibc,
> it should be smaller compared to current initrd image, plus it
> doesn't need shell script magic as it's an cpio archive.

Yep, my own experiments show a factor three smaller,
and that's before using klibc.  

> it's the way that other vendors are heading too.
> 
> jeff bailey is working on the ubuntu implementation that
> will be ported to debian soonest.
> but i have no link handy atm.

Thanks for the quick response, that's the name I was looking for.
>From here on, Google takes over: http://www.ubuntulinux.org/wiki/Initramfs

Erik



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