Question on initrd and initramfs

Mulyadi Santosa mulyadi.santosa at gmail.com
Sat Oct 6 20:36:13 EDT 2012


Hi man :)

On Sat, Oct 6, 2012 at 2:25 AM, Ezequiel Garcia <elezegarcia at gmail.com> wrote:
> Just wanted to add something fresh. I'm reading through ramfs sources:
>
> $ wc -l fs/ramfs/*.c
>    55 fs/ramfs/file-mmu.c
>   267 fs/ramfs/file-nommu.c
>   289 fs/ramfs/inode.c
>   611 total
>
> 600 lines! This is really readable! There's even a note from Linus
> saying it's a nice template
> code to read as a fs starting point.
>
> Interesting, uh?

Yeap.

I also repeatedly directly suggest anyone that wanna start adventure
in filesystem (me too, although I am lazy hehehhe) to start reading
ramfs.

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Mulyadi Santosa
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