Jeremy Katz (katzj@xxxxxxxxxx) said: > > > While not great or perfect, it's commonly used. It's also used quite a > > > bit for people that want to load drivers in a specific order so their > > > drives show up with specific names. > > > > > > Also, it looks like we lost the late load of modules for loading the > > > various fiberchannel stuff last. > > > > Drive ordering is ephemeral. LABEL=/UUID= is your friend. > > LABEL/UUID don't really help when you have blank disks that you're just > installing on for the first time... It's not like the UI would be that much better with the FC disks loaded later - there would still be 5 billion of them in the dropdown. They could certainly be blacklisted. > > > Crap, that's a pretty sizable overhead. I wonder if there's a chance of > > > getting some support in module-init-tools for some form of "keeping > > > modules around in a compressed form" :-/ > > > > You can gzip modules. That cuts it down to 14.9MB. Note that there's no > > firmware on either this or the F8 disc, and that's not going to be compressed > > once it's added. > > gzip it is then! And actually, the firmware can be compressed, at least > as long as we're using our own firmware loader. And then if we want to > switch away from our firmware loading, then we can add support for > compressed firmware to the udev firmware loader. Once you add all the qlogic & wireless firmware, it's not going to be small even when compressed. Bill _______________________________________________ Anaconda-devel-list mailing list Anaconda-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/anaconda-devel-list
