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docs: replace broken links in ramfs-rootfs-initramfs docs

http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/ doesn't seem to exist anymore.
I managed to find backups on archive.org, which helped me find
the right links on https://lore.kernel.org/.

http://freecode.com/projects/afio was also down, so I figured
it could be replaced with https://linux.die.net/man/1/afio.

Replace broken links to mailing list and aifo tool.

Signed-off-by: Nadav Tasher <tashernadav@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Tested-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Message-ID: <20251025171625.33197-1-tashernadav@gmail.com>

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Documentation/filesystems/ramfs-rootfs-initramfs.rst
··· 290 290 291 291 This decision was made back in December, 2001. The discussion started here: 292 292 293 - http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0112.2/1538.html 293 + - https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/a03cke$640$1@cesium.transmeta.com/ 294 294 295 295 And spawned a second thread (specifically on tar vs cpio), starting here: 296 296 297 - http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0112.2/1587.html 297 + - https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/3C25A06D.7030408@zytor.com/ 298 298 299 299 The quick and dirty summary version (which is no substitute for reading 300 300 the above threads) is: ··· 310 310 either way about the archive format, and there are alternative tools, 311 311 such as: 312 312 313 - http://freecode.com/projects/afio 313 + https://linux.die.net/man/1/afio 314 314 315 315 2) The cpio archive format chosen by the kernel is simpler and cleaner (and 316 316 thus easier to create and parse) than any of the (literally dozens of) ··· 331 331 5) Al Viro made the decision (quote: "tar is ugly as hell and not going to be 332 332 supported on the kernel side"): 333 333 334 - http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0112.2/1540.html 334 + - https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/Pine.GSO.4.21.0112222109050.21702-100000@weyl.math.psu.edu/ 335 335 336 336 explained his reasoning: 337 337 338 - - http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0112.2/1550.html 339 - - http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0112.2/1638.html 338 + - https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/Pine.GSO.4.21.0112222240530.21702-100000@weyl.math.psu.edu/ 339 + - https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/Pine.GSO.4.21.0112230849550.23300-100000@weyl.math.psu.edu/ 340 340 341 341 and, most importantly, designed and implemented the initramfs code. 342 342