Re: Question on Storing initrd on DoC

[Ollie Lho]

Ronald G Minnich wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 9 Mar 2001, Greg Pratt wrote:
> 
> > Ron,
> > I would really like to use an initial ramdisk because
> > I want to maximize the disk space on the DoC by
> > putting a whole bunch of stuff on this image and then
> > compressing the whole thing.
> >
> 
> I think ollie mentioned cramfs too at some point.
> 
> but I have not tried ramdisk stuff yet, so I don't know.
> 
> ron

I think cramfs solution is much more suprior. DoC is a slow device,
loading the whole initrd takes a long time. You should always use
DoC as a "disk" with filesystem/buffer cache rather than a single
large Flash.

Ollie