On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 01:15:46PM -0400, Tom Horsley wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-07-27 at 19:08 +0200, Bodo Eggert wrote:
> > > I spent a long time the other day trying to examine an initrd
> > > image on a fedora core 5 system because the initrd.txt file
> > > is apparently obsolete. Here is a patch which I hope
> > > will reduce future confusion for others.
> >
> > Your documentation is technically wrong, and there is a better
> > explanation:
>
> I find it easy to believe my document is wrong, but looking at
> the Documentation/filesystems/ramfs-rootfs-initramfs.txt file
> would never have led me to believe that the initrd.img file
> was related in any way. The ramfs-rootfs-initramfs.txt
> file describes the the archive as being built into the
> kernel, so it needs updating too I guess (and fedora
> should change the name of the initrd files to be
> initramfs files so I'll look for documentation in the right
> place :-).
It's largely kept all the old names for historical reasons.
We *could* rename stuff, but then we'd also have to rename
the mkinitrd package, the scripts that call it, etc etc
for no real gain.
Dave
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