Who maintains initramfs-tools?
Paul Albrecht
albrecht at rdi1.com
Thu Jul 24 14:56:57 UTC 2008
On Tue, 2008-07-22 at 10:13 -0400, Ben Collins wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-07-22 at 09:08 -0500, Paul Albrecht wrote:
> > On Tue, 2008-07-22 at 07:31 -0600, Tim Gardner wrote:
> > > Paul Albrecht wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > Who maintains the initramfs-tools package?
> > > >
> > >
> > > >From the changelog I see 5 different people for the last 5 uploads. What
> > > do you need?
> > >
> >
> > I hacked initramfs-tools so I could run ubuntu on a 2 gigabyte partition
> > and I was wondering whether it was worthwhile pushing the changes
> > upstream.
> >
> > What I do specifically is first install ubuntu on a 8 gigabyte flash
> > disk. Then I further configure the system the way I want and squash the
> > root file system. Finally, I write the squashed root file system to a 2
> > gigabyte flash disk.
> >
> > With my hack to initramfs-tools, which simply union mounts the squashed
> > root with a cow layer, I get a usable desktop on a 2 gigabyte partition.
>
> This sounds a lot like our livecd, and even more like the work we've
> done for the classmate PC. I'd compare what you've done with that and
> see if there is anything common.
>
Rereading your response I'm not sure I understood you. Are you saying
you think I should look at what you did for the classmate PC? How would
I do that?
The reason I posted here was because I'd like to get the code that
handles loop file systems tweaked a bit so I don't have to pin the
initramfs-package.
--
Paul Albrecht
More information about the kernel-team
mailing list