I noticed that after boot with an initrd in 2.6.16 the rootfs had: --w-r-xr-T 1 root root 6241141 Jan 1 1970 initrd.image Which is caused by a small typo: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>