X-Original-To: alpine-user@lists.alpinelinux.org Received: from sdaoden.eu (sdaoden.eu [217.144.132.164]) by lists.alpinelinux.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B91CC5C4F6D for ; Tue, 10 Apr 2018 11:56:43 +0000 (GMT) Received: by sdaoden.eu (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 4D57716045; Tue, 10 Apr 2018 13:56:41 +0200 (CEST) Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2018 13:56:40 +0200 From: Steffen Nurpmeso To: Joshua Haase Cc: =?utf-8?B?Q8OhZw==?= , alpine-user@lists.alpinelinux.org Subject: Re: [alpine-user] Lack of a minimal documentation on Alpine's overall architecture, run-from-RAM feature, mkinitfs, modloop etc. Message-ID: <20180410115640.QHDo8%steffen@sdaoden.eu> References: <20180409135338.GB14670@alpine.my.domain> <87r2nng2z1.fsf@riseup.net> In-Reply-To: <87r2nng2z1.fsf@riseup.net> Mail-Followup-To: Joshua Haase , =?utf-8?B?Q8OhZw==?= , alpine-user@lists.alpinelinux.org User-Agent: s-nail v14.9.10-10-g2ecbbaa2-dirty OpenPGP: id=EE19E1C1F2F7054F8D3954D8308964B51883A0DD; url=https://ftp.sdaoden.eu/steffen.asc BlahBlahBlah: Any stupid boy can crush a beetle. But all the professors in the world can make no bugs. X-Mailinglist: alpine-user Precedence: list List-Id: Alpine Development List-Unsubscribe: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Joshua Haase wrote: |C=C3=A1g (2018-04-09 13:53): || Sorry for the late reply. || ||> - What is modloop!? || || Modloop is a kernel module for loop devices. | |>From a newbie perspective, you can think of it as a way to mount files |as if they were disks. There was or is TinyCoreLinux, where packages are not unpacked and installed, but kept as balls and the simply mounted in via modloop. --steffen | |Der Kragenbaer, The moon bear, |der holt sich munter he cheerfully and one by one |einen nach dem anderen runter wa.ks himself off |(By Robert Gernhardt) --- Unsubscribe: alpine-user+unsubscribe@lists.alpinelinux.org Help: alpine-user+help@lists.alpinelinux.org ---