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From: Dave Cinege <dcinege@psychosis.com>
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To: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Subject: Re: Abbott and Costello meet Crunch Time -- Penultimate 2.5 merge candidate list.
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On Wednesday 30 October 2002 3:37, Russell King wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 03:22:17AM -0500, Dave Cinege wrote:
> > Do you have any serious sysadmin, clustering, or emebedded system
> > IMPLEMENTATION experience?
>
> Please don't get personal, or you'll end up in peoples kill files.

It's not personal. He made a wild 'No one needs any of this[initrd]' 
statement. Is he coming from 'this looks like a good idea'(coder) or
'I can prove this is a good idea through experience examples.'
(systems engineer)

I can prove to you (for one thing) that when the shit hits the
fan (disaster recovery) initrd is a good option to have.

> ARM is basically embedded today, and I support initramfs.  I don't
> believe your "embedded system" argument holds any water.  Yes, it

High level embedded systems...low level systems could care less.

> is a different way of doing things, but it can (and does here)
> support initrd images.

The point to this is:

Linking an image into the kernel LOOKS nice, but I would sure not
want to deploy it because it becomes an adminstation nightmare. 
Even with initrd, a single file can be a problem...this is why my
patch supports extracting multiple tar.gz archives....to maintain
configuration modularity.

Having an image in the kernel is not a bad thing...making it the
only option is.

Dave

-- 
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