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#1 2009-05-24 23:38:31
- ogronom
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general question about mkinicpio
Hi guys,
mkinitcpio was developed at Archlinux. All other GNU/Linux world doesn't use it. Can anyone specify why don we need this bicycle... I mean why do we go our own way? 
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#2 2009-05-24 23:54:14
- ogronom
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Re: general question about mkinicpio
Ok, that was a stupid question...
May be one can specify the advantagies, comparison with a other initrams
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#3 2009-05-25 02:12:18
- Peasantoid
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Re: general question about mkinicpio
[correct me if this is entirely wrong]
I think it's because Arch doesn't even use a ramdisk at all — it's a cpio archive that expands itself into the root filesystem and gives the kernel something to use. Whereas tools such as mkinitrd create disk images.
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