On Thu, Mar 20, 2025 at 08:46:14PM +0100, Julian Stecklina via B4 Relay wrote: > From: Julian Stecklina <julian.stecklina@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > When the initrd doesn't fit into the RAM disk, we currently just die. > This is unfortunate, because users have to manually configure the RAM > disk size for no good reason. It also means that the kernel command > line needs to be changed for different initrds, which is sometimes > cumbersome. > > Attempt resizing /dev/ram to fit the RAM disk size instead. This makes > initrd images work a bit more like initramfs images in that they just > work. > > Of course, this only works, because we know that /dev/ram is a RAM > disk and we can resize it freely. I'm not sure whether I've used the > blockdev APIs here in a sane way. If not, please advise! Just use an initramfs and avoid all these problems.
