[gentoo-amd64] Re: Baselayout 2 (Was: Sun and GPL)

[Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net>]

"Wil Reichert" <wil.reichert@gmail.com> posted
7a329d910705292138k76ece020gdf1d226405cb1fff@mail.gmail.com, excerpted
below, on  Tue, 29 May 2007 21:38:17 -0700:

> On 5/29/07, Joshua Hoblitt <jhoblitt@ifa.hawaii.edu> wrote:
>> On Wed, May 30, 2007 at 02:33:18AM +0200, Florian D. wrote:
>> > FYI, genkernel is creating an initrd, not an initramfs, which is the
>> preferred way nowadays.
>> > Information on how to setup an initramfs can be found at:
>> > http://lldn.timesys.com/docs/initramfs
>>
>> Umm, I think you need to check your facts.  genkernel creates a gzip'd
>> CPIO archive named "initramfs-genkernel-arch-versionstring"...
> 
> So the command 'genkernel initrd' creates a file called 'initramfs-...' 
> which contains files called etc/initrd.defaults and etc/initrd.scripts. 
> Poor naming conventions but it looks like an initrd to me.

It's possible I'm mistaken on this since I've not used an initrd/
initramfs either one since the kernel switched with 2.6 (vs. 2.4 and 
before), but from my reading, 2.6 kernels make an initramfs, not an 
initrd.  However, many still call it an initrd, simply because that's 
what it was, for years.

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