On Saturday, February 28 2009, Richard W.M. Jones said: > 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[*]. Yes, this is because of a lot of historical reasons that really aren't worth the time it'd take to go through them. Work on dracut will hopefully lead to changes/improvements here, but it's not going to be ready in time for F11. Hopefully F12, though Jeremy -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
