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Re: crunched img & mdsetimage



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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