From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750798AbVH0V2W (ORCPT ); Sat, 27 Aug 2005 17:28:22 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750796AbVH0V2W (ORCPT ); Sat, 27 Aug 2005 17:28:22 -0400 Received: from ylpvm29-ext.prodigy.net ([207.115.57.60]:15024 "EHLO ylpvm29.prodigy.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750804AbVH0V2W (ORCPT ); Sat, 27 Aug 2005 17:28:22 -0400 X-ORBL: [67.124.117.85] Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2005 14:28:17 -0700 From: Chris Wedgwood To: Kent Robotti Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Initramfs and TMPFS! Message-ID: <20050827212817.GA2951@taniwha.stupidest.org> References: <20050827081918.GA963@Linux.nyc.rr.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050827081918.GA963@Linux.nyc.rr.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat, Aug 27, 2005 at 08:19:18AM +0000, Kent Robotti wrote: > I know that experience dosen't come from packing the kernel source, > or the zillion other tar archives on the internet. Are you deliberately trying to be annoying? Let me guess: - your under 25 years of age, probably in high school or not far out of it - you have a stupid oversized wanky computer case with neon lighting and useless analog dials and what not. you might have even overclocked it - you've run windows most of your live - you probably run gentoo now. you like the feeling of having everything optimized for your exact system; the addition 0.25% speed increase more than offsets the fact everything is crappy and crashes all the time - you run reiserfs, you probably can't wait till reiser4 is merged so you can run that - you're very interesting in real-time patches. linux should clearly have all real-time stuff merged. second to your interest in realtime is probably something like selinux - if you drive a car, it has extra spoilers added and you've replaced the steering wheel with something from MOMO - you 'friends' are worried you'll die a virgin Please. How about you do a little research on some things for a bit? The initramfs code is done the way it is for a good reason. cpio is used over tar for another good reason. You are most welcome to disagree and even voice you disagreement, but there comes a point where you really need to produce some better arguments. Patches wouldn't hurt either.