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On Sat, 21 Mar 2015 22:48:34 +0100, Pascal Hambourg wrote:

> The other way around. Older initrd is a filesystem image written into a
> ramdisk. Newer initramfs is a cpio archive extracted into a tmpfs.



what does this mean exactly?  What is the  difference.  The file will be 
in an archive.  what is the difference between tmpfs and a ramdisk?