Initial testing of the giant initrd is not going so well. First, it appears you have to bump the memory up to 1 GB. Second, qemu and the kernel are both pretty unhappy about such a large initrd. So I may not be able to do this after all. While I was trying to think of a new plan, I decided to see what was taking up so much space in the initrd. Check this list of big offenders out, and see if you can help me think of ways to remove or reduce them: -r--r--r-- 1 root root 5784008 Aug 23 13:51 etc/selinux/targeted/policy/policy.24 We have both the policy file and the contents of /etc/selinux/targeted/modules, which contains a policy.kern file equal in size to the above. Do we really need both of these? Do we need the modules directory at all? It sure does contain a lot of crud that'll never get run while anaconda's around. -r--r--r-- 1 root root 99158752 Aug 23 14:05 usr/lib/locale/locale-archive This is the biggest file in the initrd. Nothing else comes close. What can we do about this? In the past, we've gone back and forth on generating it manually vs. using the system one to achieve some savings. Given how enormous it is, I think spending some time generating it manually is worth it even if we trim the file by half. -r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 2280024 Jul 20 01:29 usr/lib64/dri/radeong_dri.so -r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 2165224 Jul 20 01:29 usr/lib64/dri/swrastg_dri.so -r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 1943960 Jul 20 01:29 usr/lib64/dri/swrast_dri.so -r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 2280024 Jul 20 01:29 usr/lib64/dri/r300_dri.so -r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 2114608 Jul 20 01:29 usr/lib64/dri/unichrome_dri.so -r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 2131256 Jul 20 01:29 usr/lib64/dri/savage_dri.so -r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 2192520 Jul 20 01:29 usr/lib64/dri/mga_dri.so -r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 2267784 Jul 20 01:29 usr/lib64/dri/radeon_dri.so -r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 2102144 Jul 20 01:29 usr/lib64/dri/r128_dri.so -r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 2307288 Jul 20 01:29 usr/lib64/dri/r200_dri.so -r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 2328232 Jul 20 01:29 usr/lib64/dri/i965_dri.so -r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 2273368 Jul 20 01:29 usr/lib64/dri/i915_dri.so -r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 2170952 Jul 20 01:29 usr/lib64/dri/tdfx_dri.so -r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 2244696 Jul 20 01:29 usr/lib64/dri/r600_dri.so Are these really necessary for a responsive installation experience? That's 30 MB right there. -r--r--r-- 1 root root 5634892 Aug 23 13:53 usr/share/icons/Mist/icon-theme.cache I can't imagine that a 5.6 MB icon cache is really required. -r--r--r-- 1 root root 224224 Aug 18 12:51 usr/share/anaconda/loader.tr This is a second copy of this file, which I believe is my patchset's fault. -r--r--r-- 1 root root 8618994 Jul 21 21:03 usr/share/cracklib/pw_dict.pwd We only use this 8.6 MB file to check root's password once. There's got to be a smarter and smaller way of doing that. Overall, it looks like there's a lot of savings here without even needing to make tough choices about which binaries and libraries need to get cut. And there are some really big, really dumb binaries in the initrd too. - Chris _______________________________________________ Anaconda-devel-list mailing list Anaconda-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/anaconda-devel-list
