From: Robert P. J. Day rpjday@crashcourse.ca
first, while the cpio archive physically contains a number of basic /dev special files, the top-level "init" script runs "mknod" to create them all, anyway. not a big deal, but is it fair to say that populating the initrd.img with those initial /dev files is redundant since init creates them all, anyway?
Maybe needed before the top-level "init" script...? Or do you mean the mknod is called before the extraction of the initrd.img?
also, i note that that "init" script appears to call a couple scripts/commands that don't exist in the initrd, such as hotplug and mkblkdevs. again, not a big deal but if i show the students what's in that initrd, chances are someone's going to notice the above and ask about it, so i might as well have an answer. thanks.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=201237
JD