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Date: Fri, 01 Nov 2002 06:19:15 -0500
From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
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Dave Cinege wrote:

>What this has that initramfs doesn't:
>	Clean up and rewrite of the system already in place.
>	The use of tar archives
>	Multiple archive support
>	Works good, right now
>  
>

indeed :)


>What initramfs has that this doesn't:
>	Load image from a 'linked' kernel location.
>	Uses CPIO archives
>  
>

early userspace, which is the whole point of the exercise.

We want to move a bunch of stuff _out_ of the kernel to userspace.

    Jeff




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