Re: Problems with iso9660 as initrd

From: H. Peter Anvin (hpa@zytor.com)
Date: Thu Feb 07 2002 - 03:32:45 EST

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Followup to: <m3n0yl90xb.fsf@borg.borderworlds.dk>
By author: Christian Laursen <xi@borderworlds.dk>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
> >
> > Also, you don't have CONFIG_ZISOFS set...
>
> Sorry for not being precise enough. It is not a zisofs, just compressed
> with gzip as usual for an initrd image.
>

Still unusual, though. Why iso9660? It's not particularly well
suited for an initrd, especially because of all the redundant data
structures and extra blocking.

-hpa

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