Re: initrd broken (was Re: 2.3.9+ and initrd)

Werner Almesberger (almesber@lrc.di.epfl.ch)
Thu, 12 Aug 1999 03:23:56 +0200

Bradley D. LaRonde wrote:
> What happened back then that broke the the filesystems?

The introduction of the page cache broke RAM disks, which of course
also broke initrd. With a little luck, initrd should start to work
again automagically once RAM disks are fixed. (I'm not quite sure
what the status is there.)

- Werner

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