What is the purpose of an initramfs during the Linux system start?

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It loads required modules and starts sub sytems like LVM to make the root file system accessible to the kernel

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It moves the kernel from normal system memory to initram memory to speed up kernel access

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It copies the root file system's content to RAM to speed up the system and reduce writes to disk

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It creates a ram disk to store volatile data for directories like /tmp to reduce writes to disk

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