2009/1/15 Matt Sealey <matt@genesi-usa.com>:
On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 8:53 AM, Rob OpenSuSE <rob.opensuse.linux@googlemail.com> wrote:
The problem that seems to be overlooked is that, SquashFS is only just making it into the mainline kernel. initrd's are from kernel hacker point of you, non-broken and functioning perfectly satisfactorily using the cpio/gzip format.
Squashfs support has been built in and built from every kernel package I've seen on SUSE since somewhere around version 8.
It is not like it is not ready on peoples' systems *right now*. Only vanilla kernels won't see it, which may cause some problem for people who love to use vanilla kernels, but that gets fixed when squashfs is mainlined.
The linux kernel team "kernel hacker" use all kinds of distro's not just SuSE, and as Greg KH said "I think the goal with mkinitrd is to work with the community to come up with a common tool that all the distros use. Dave Jones is currently working on a first cut at this, and then we will all get together to go from there. If it happens to use squashfs instead of cpio, well, that will be up to the community, not just us." So the questions he asked, wanting numbers matter, as does that objection, the advocates of change need to be provide evidence. There are end user benefits to mountable initrd's, and would have been a much better workround for one bug, than what I actually had to do. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kernel+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kernel+help@opensuse.org