Thank you, Joel, I will read them and if any question, I will post again.
Thanks, Best Regards, Daniel (Youngwhan) Song On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 7:48 PM, Joel Fernandes <agnel.j...@gmail.com>wrote: > inird: > http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-initrd.html > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Initrd > > ramdisk: > http://www.vanemery.com/Linux/Ramdisk/ramdisk.html > > In recent times, ramdisk in the context of an initrd is really a > misnomer and is more accurately an "initramfs" - cpio archive that is > extracted into a tmpfs on boot. Earlier, initrds used to images that > could be loopback mounted. Same effect except that the tmpfs method > doesn't need a filesystem driver. > A RAM disk is a device in /dev/ram* that shares a dedicated portion of > your RAM and can be configured with a kernel parameter ramdisk_size. > Unlike a tmpfs, this memory is not swappable and can't be shared by > the kernel. > > -Joel > > > On 12/16/09, Daniel (Youngwhan) Song <breadn...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > initrd is also RAM disk, then what is major difference between initrd and > > regular RAM disk? > > > > Best Regards, > > Daniel (Youngwhan) Song > > >
