[PATCH 00/62] initrd: remove classic initrd support
Dave Young
dyoung at redhat.com
Tue Sep 16 11:48:40 AEST 2025
Hi,
On Sat, 13 Sept 2025 at 06:42, Askar Safin <safinaskar at zohomail.com> wrote:
>
> Intro
> ====
> This patchset removes classic initrd (initial RAM disk) support,
> which was deprecated in 2020.
> Initramfs still stays, and RAM disk itself (brd) still stays, too.
There is one initrd use case in my mind, it can be extended to co-work
with overlayfs as a kernel built-in solution for initrd(compressed fs
image)+overlayfs. Currently we can use compressed fs images
(squashfs or erofs) within initramfs, and kernel loop mount together
with overlayfs, this works fine but extra pre-mount phase is needed.
Thanks
Dave
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