On Sat, 28 Feb 2009 17:40:05 +0000 "Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > At the moment mkinitrd goes through a big hoo-hah where it tries to > determine what precise set of kernel modules are needed to mount the > root filesystem, and no more. > > But I don't understand why we don't just put every possible block > device driver / LVM / crypto module / etc. into the initrd. The > ramdisk is discarded as soon as the root filesystem is mounted, so at > most we're saving a few kilobytes of disk space. At the same time, > mkinitrd is massively more complicated than it really needs to be, and > initrd images are non-portable between machines[*]. unpacking the initrd in the kernel takes real time. Easily a second for a "really big" initrd as you're proposing... -- Arjan van de Ven Intel Open Source Technology Centre For development, discussion and tips for power savings, visit http://www.lesswatts.org -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
