On Mon, Feb 02, 2009 at 02:50:09PM -0500, Jeremy Katz wrote: > On Monday, February 02 2009, Dave Jones said: > > > On Mon, Feb 02, 2009 at 11:37:08AM -0500, Dave Jones wrote: > > > Things that still need doing include, but are not limited to.. > > > > > > > A few more things.. > > > > The current Fedora mkinitrd generates initrds in the ~3MB range. > > A dracut generated image is ~17MB. > > 17? I'm seeing along the lines of 7 on my box you're right. I was looking at an ungzipped image. > > * selinux policy loading. > > I don't think there's any real reason this has to be in the initrd. > > Though it means that either upstart or whatever init you use has to > > do it, or your /sbin/init needs to become > > Right. /sbin/init had it with sysvinit, but Scott was against adding it > in upstart. Feel free to restart that discussion with the two line init, upstart doesn't need to change (other than the executable changing name). > > Finally, the udev rules currently in dracut are kind of hacky. > > It'd be good to just have a set of rules provided by the > > system udev that we can drop in there. > > Yep. Kay and I had a very brief discussion about it before the > holidays. And, eg, the dm/lvm rules that are there are almost entirely > there because those tools don't ship sane rules themselves. If they > did, we could just suck them in. *nod* The hack we have now isn't pretty, but works at least. > I do think that there needs to be /lib/udev/initrules.d or similar to > say "these rules matter for booting" as opposed to the full set of rules > in /lib/udev or the hard-coded list of rules files currently present I'm curious if any other distros have already solved this and are shipping rules that aren't upstream yet? Dave -- http://www.codemonkey.org.uk -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe initramfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
