On Tue, 25 Dec 2012 07:09:49 +0800, William Kenworthy wrote:

> I used initrd's many years ago, and separate /usr and/ until on a redhat
> system I rebooted with an out of sequence initrd and kernel on a
> critical server (the sort of thing that puts your employment at risk
> when there are 20 odd developers using it ...)

That's the main reason I build the initramfs into the kernel rather than
as a separate file. That way you know that each kernel will always
continue to work, you can't screw up the initramfs of a working kernel.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

If Bill Gates had a dime for every time a Windows box crashed...
 ...Oh, wait a minute, he already does.