Re: [PATCH] mkinitrd rescue mode

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On Thu, 2005-06-02 at 13:06 -0400, Jeffrey Layton wrote:

> This does increase the memory profile of the initramfs by about 1.5M.
> Isn't that memory freed after the switchroot occurs, though?

It isn't currently freed.  There's a plan for how to free it within the
switchroot command, but I haven't had the time to implement it.

> If you update to a new kernel, and that kernel isn't detecting your 
> drives correctly, then that is very difficult to troubleshoot once you
> boot to a rescue kernel.

How often is that a real problem?  I don't think I've seen any
significant number of bug reports on this in recent memory.
-- 
        Peter

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