Re: initramfs buffer spec -- second draft

[Alexander Viro]

On 13 Jan 2002, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
 
> Which we are reusing for a different purpose.  And because of that we
> become trustees of our version of the format.  To make it clear that
> someone else defines how this format works a reference to the
> appropriate specification is called for.  

We are using it for precisely the same purpose - to put a bunch of
files on a filesystem.
 
> The cases where initramfs will be used are some of the most operating
> specific cases I can imagine.  To handle those cases it is necessary
> to support the full breadth of the capability of the operating system.

Huh?  It's a bloody archive - collection of files and nothing else.
What "capability of the operating system"?