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Unlike existing Linux boot images, the Dracut framework attempts to introduce as little hard-coded logic into the initramfs as possible. [1] The initramfs has essentially one purpose: locating and mounting the real root file system so that the boot process can transition to it. [1] This functionality is dependent on device availability. [1]
In the initramfs scheme (available since the Linux kernel 2.6.13), the image may be a cpio archive (optionally compressed) or a concatenation of such archives. The archive is unpacked by the kernel into a special instance of a tmpfs that becomes the initial root file system.
An initramfs-style boot is similar, but not identical to the described initrd boot. At this point, with interrupts enabled, the scheduler can take control of the overall management of the system, to provide pre-emptive multi-tasking, and the init process is left to continue booting the user environment in user space.
In computing, klibc is a minimalistic subset of the standard C library developed by H. Peter Anvin.It was developed mainly to be used during the Linux startup process, and it is part of the early user space, i.e. components used during kernel startup, but which do not run in kernel mode. [2]
Squashfs is a compressed read-only file system for Linux.Squashfs compresses files, inodes and directories, and supports block sizes from 4 KiB up to 1 MiB for greater compression.
Harald Hoyer is a computer programmer and photographer, best known for developing the dracut initramfs generator and framework, [1] the udev device manager of Linux, [1] the systemd replacement for the System V init daemon [1] and the Gummiboot EFI boot loader. [2] Harald Hoyer also made various contributions to the Linux Kernel, starting 1997. [3]
SliTaz uses the Openbox window manager.. Additional packages are added using a program called "TazPanel". This is due to the specific package format that SliTaz uses (tazpkg).
Configfs appears similar to sysfs but they are in fact different and complementary. Configfs is for creating, managing and destroying kernel objects from user-space, and sysfs for viewing and manipulating objects from user-space which are created and destroyed by kernel space. [2]