Re: boot sequence discussion

On 8/28/07, Monty J. Harder mjharder@gmail.com wrote:

Well, if you don't have some kind of filesystem compiled into the kernel, how would you load a module from... a filesystem?

My naive and ignorant presumption is that initfs sets up the file system structure at a higher level -- perhaps the virtual file system that linux uses to make all the file systems behave the same -- rather than going through the whole dance of pretending that the data in question is really on some kind of external media that has to be mounted and so on. Not alert enough at this point to construct a nice metaphor.