initramfs vs initrd

[Sébastien Chrétien]

ok thank you



2008/8/25, Josh Boyer <jwboyer at linux.vnet.ibm.com>:
>
> 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
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