Friday, March 06, 2009

ramfs vs. ramdisk

http://blog.linux.org.tw/~jserv/archives/001954.html
http://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/filesystems/ramfs-rootfs-initramfs.txt
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-initrd.html

Legacy(2.4) ramdisk require and block device to mount into the system, the operation on the block device and file system is not memory efficient and time consuming, and comes new implementation using initramfs.

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