Hi,
On 08/24/2010 06:23 PM, John Reiser wrote:
On 08/23/2010 01:04 PM, Chris Lumens wrote:
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.
Which compression format is used where? Output from lzma often is 15%
smaller than "gzip -9".
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 99158752 Aug 23 14:05 usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
Several possible cuts: Take the top 10 locales by smolt listings. Or,
take the six official languages of the United Nations (English, French,
Spanish, Russian, Chinese(Mandarin), Arabic). Or, set a limit of 30MB
and take what fits. Or, take only _your_ favorite locale.
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 2280024 Jul 20 01:29 usr/lib64/dri/radeong_dri.so
[snip]
-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.
xdriver=vesa nomodeset
-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.
If required to be self-contained (download not allowed) then you can change
the algorithm to a hashing scheme that identifies "possibly weak" [subject to
both false positives and false negatives], with a warning to check later.
Or we could move setting the root password to firstboot. Yes I know what about
people who don't run firstboot, well that is the exception and I've learned
never to optmimize for the exception. We could do a mini text only firstboot
for them and for other things which we may want to move over to first boot.
Regards,
Hans
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