Re: [RFD w/info-PATCH] device arguments from lookup, partion code inuserspace

From: Linus Torvalds (torvalds@transmeta.com)
Date: Sat May 19 2001 - 15:37:00 EDT

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    On Sat, 19 May 2001, Brad Boyer wrote:
    >
    > If I understand the status of stuff correctly, I think this would make it
    > a lot more painful to admin if it became a requirement to use initrd on
    > everything just to be able to boot.

    Don't get too hung up on initrd. Symbolic links really _are_ workable ways
    to basically cache the information across boots, and the real problems are
    elsewhere.

                    Linus

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