In message <20060509171520.GA10886 at gate.ebshome.net> you wrote: > > After many years of doing embedded Linux stuff I still don't > understand why people are so fond of initrd. > > For temporary stuff - tempfs is much better and flexible. For r/o > stuff - just make separate MTD partition (cramfs, squashfs) and mount > it directly as root. Both options will waste significantly less > memory.
Agreed. And if somebody wants to see facts and numbers, please see http://www.denx.de/wiki/view/DULG/RootFileSystemSelection Best regards, Wolfgang Denk -- Software Engineering: Embedded and Realtime Systems, Embedded Linux Phone: (+49)-8142-66989-10 Fax: (+49)-8142-66989-80 Email: wd at denx.de Ninety-Ninety Rule of Project Schedules: The first ninety percent of the task takes ninety percent of the time, and the last ten percent takes the other ninety percent.