initramfs vs initrd

[Josh Boyer]

On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 02:57:14PM +0200, =?ISO-8859-1?Q?S=E9bastien_Chr=E9tien_ wrote:
>Hello,
>
>What is the difference between initramfs and initrd ?

You could poke around in the Documentation directory of the kernel.  That
should answer your question.

Briefly, initramfs is a gzipped cpio archive.  initrd is typically a
compressed ext2 filesystem and requires a ramdisk to be unpacked to.

josh