From: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday at 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