Subject: Re: crunched img & mdsetimage
To: Hsu, Cheng-Hsin (Cheng-Hsin) <chs@lucent.com>
From: Hubert Feyrer <hubert@feyrer.de>
List: tech-embed
Date: 04/09/2004 15:31:57
On Fri, 9 Apr 2004, Hsu, Cheng-Hsin (Cheng-Hsin) wrote:
> Is it possible to compress the ramdisk.fs before stick it into kernel by mdsetimage? Has anyone ever done this?
As far as I understand, no.
The image is loaded with the kernel into memory, and accessed directly
from that place. I guess putting a single .gz file into that filesystem
that you then extract (maybe to a mfs) shouldn't be too hard though.
- Hubert
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Hubert Feyrer <hubert@feyrer.de>