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

[Linus Torvalds]

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