Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2003 09:17:08 -0500
From: Nathan Straz <nstraz@sgi.com>
To: "Jason H. Smith" <jhs@oes.co.th>
Cc: linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: XFS as initrd file system
Message-ID: <20030624141708.GB2008@sgi.com>
Mail-Followup-To: "Jason H. Smith" <jhs@oes.co.th>, linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com
References: <200306241642.37639.jhs@oes.co.th>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Disposition: inline
In-Reply-To: <200306241642.37639.jhs@oes.co.th>
User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.3i
Sender: linux-xfs-bounce@oss.sgi.com
Errors-to: linux-xfs-bounce@oss.sgi.com
Precedence: bulk

On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 04:42:32PM +0700, Jason H. Smith wrote:
> Hi.  I'm trying to make an XFS-only system.  The kernel mounts XFS 
> filesystems fine, but I'm having problems migrating from an ext2 initrd 
> image to XFS.
...
> This same setup works if I use ext2 as the initrd filesystem, but I do not 
> want ext2 in my kernel for something as trivial as initrd.

IMHO, a journaled file system is a little overkill for an initrd image.
If you want an alternative to ext2, you might want to look at cramfs.  I
think using XFS for an initrd image is best kept to an academic exercise.  

-- 
Nate Straz                                              nstraz@sgi.com
sgi, inc                                           http://www.sgi.com/
Linux Test Project                                  http://ltp.sf.net/