Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Dracut HostOnly

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Am 04.02.2013 15:47, schrieb John Reiser:
>> = Features/DracutHostOnly =
>> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/DracutHostOnly
> 
>> ... This results in a very big initramfs, which takes a long time to 
>> load on system start and a long time to create on kernel updates.
> 
> For speed in creating an initramfs, please consider Requiring
> the package 'pigz' (Parallel Implementation of GZip), or at least highlight
> this feature in the documentation.  If pigz is present in $PATH,
> then already today dracut uses it, and this speeds up the compression
> by a factor equal to the number of CPUs.  On my 3GHz box with 2 CPUs
> the gzip time is about 20 seconds, but using pigz takes only 10 seconds

thanks for that

below the output of a HostOnly one before
and after "yum install pigz" and so i take
this package in my base-metapackage

[root@rh:~]$ date; dracut -f; date
Mo 4. Feb 15:47:50 CET 2013
Mo 4. Feb 15:48:02 CET 2013

[root@rh:~]$ date; dracut -f; date
Mo 4. Feb 15:48:31 CET 2013
Mo 4. Feb 15:48:36 CET 2013


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