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| From | Aragorn <thorongil@telenet.be.invalid> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.os.linux.hardware |
| Subject | Re: Any Kernel Hackers in the house |
| Followup-To | comp.os.linux.hardware |
| Date | 2015-04-20 14:49 +0200 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Strider |
| Message-ID | <mh2sjf$7mm$1@dont-email.me> (permalink) |
| References | <mej9sq$evu$3@reader1.panix.com> <mekbqq$tvr$1@dont-email.me> <mekovi$1mvo$1@saria.nerim.net> <mh2fsa$vv$1@reader1.panix.com> |
Followups directed to: comp.os.linux.hardware
On Monday 20 April 2015 11:11, ruben conveyed the following to
comp.os.linux.hardware...
> 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?
A ramdisk is a block device which exists in RAM and is (usually) static
in size, whereas a tmpfs exists in virtual memory ─ which means that its
contents can be paged out to disk ─ and only consumes as much virtual
memory as per the value of whatever is stored on it.
If you create a tmpfs with nothing on it, then it won't consume any
virtual memory (apart from an inode for its root directory).
--
= Aragorn =
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Any Kernel Hackers in the house ruben safir <dont@email.me> - 2015-03-21 08:24 +0000
Re: Any Kernel Hackers in the house ruben safir <dont@email.me> - 2015-03-21 16:21 +0000
Re: Any Kernel Hackers in the house Aragorn <thorongil@telenet.be.invalid> - 2015-03-21 19:04 +0100
Re: Any Kernel Hackers in the house Pascal Hambourg <boite-a-spam@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2015-03-21 22:48 +0100
Re: Any Kernel Hackers in the house ruben <ceo@iran.gov> - 2015-04-20 09:11 +0000
Re: Any Kernel Hackers in the house Aragorn <thorongil@telenet.be.invalid> - 2015-04-20 14:49 +0200
Re: Any Kernel Hackers in the house Pascal Hambourg <boite-a-spam@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2015-04-22 00:40 +0200
Re: Any Kernel Hackers in the house ruben safir <ruben@mrbrklyn.com> - 2015-04-22 05:38 -0400
Re: Any Kernel Hackers in the house ruben safir <ruben@mrbrklyn.com> - 2015-04-22 05:39 -0400
Re: Any Kernel Hackers in the house Baho Utot <baho-utot@columbus.rr.com> - 2015-03-21 17:52 -0400
Re: Any Kernel Hackers in the house Aragorn <thorongil@telenet.be.invalid> - 2015-03-22 00:03 +0100
Re: Any Kernel Hackers in the house Pascal Hambourg <boite-a-spam@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2015-03-21 22:50 +0100
Re: Any Kernel Hackers in the house ruben safir <ruben@mrbrklyn.com> - 2015-03-21 18:25 -0400
Re: Any Kernel Hackers in the house Marc Haber <mh+usenetspam1118@zugschl.us> - 2015-03-22 10:51 +0100
Re: Any Kernel Hackers in the house ruben <ceo@iran.gov> - 2015-04-20 09:18 +0000
Re: Any Kernel Hackers in the house Richard Kettlewell <rjk@greenend.org.uk> - 2015-03-22 10:28 +0000
Re: Any Kernel Hackers in the house ruben <ceo@iran.gov> - 2015-04-20 09:35 +0000
Re: Any Kernel Hackers in the house Richard Kettlewell <rjk@greenend.org.uk> - 2015-04-20 10:37 +0100
Re: Any Kernel Hackers in the house ruben safir <ruben@mrbrklyn.com> - 2015-04-20 09:36 -0400
Re: Any Kernel Hackers in the house Richard Kettlewell <rjk@greenend.org.uk> - 2015-04-20 16:23 +0100
Re: Any Kernel Hackers in the house ruben safir <ruben@mrbrklyn.com> - 2015-05-01 01:55 -0400
Re: Any Kernel Hackers in the house Thomas Richter <thor@math.tu-berlin.de> - 2015-03-24 13:00 +0100
Re: Any Kernel Hackers in the house ruben safir <dont@email.me> - 2015-03-25 02:54 +0000
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