On Sun, Oct 05, 2003 at 03:18:53PM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > * Herbert Xu > > | Very few people really need cramfs if they're building custom kernels. > | This is because initrd only makes sense when you're building for a > | large number of machines. If you're building a custom kernel, just > | compile in all the drivers you need for mounting root and that's that. > > Except if you want to use EVMS or similar on /, in which case you need > the evms userspace tools on the initrd. (Using 2.6, that is, in 2.4 > the discovery is done in kernel-space.)
Minor correction: with EVMS 1.x (on Linux 2.4), discovery is done in kernel-space. With EVMS 2.x (on Linux 2.4+device-mapper or Linux 2.6), discovery is done in user-space. EVMS 1.x does not support Linux 2.6, but EVMS 2.x does support Linux 2.4. -- - mdz
