Patrick Caulfield wrote: >On Thu, May 16, 2002 at 05:10:58PM +0200, Bas wrote: > > >>>>Just a couple of suggestions firstly it would be nice if it checked >>>>for /boot/System.map-'uname -r' rather than for just /boot/System.map. >>>>When you have more than one kernel floating about this is handy. >>>> >>>> >>>Yep, that's what the "-F" option aims to support. >>> >>> >>> >>>>Second suggestion it would be nice if a -t option existed to allow a >>>>choice in the type of filesystem the initrd is created in. Not everyone >>>>is using ext2 these days :) >>>> >>>> >>>Well, why do you want to use a different filesystem on a relatively tiny >>>and little populated ram disk? >>> >>> >>Because once you choose to use XFS, you don't need ext2 utils anymore, so >>why would you want to install ext2utils ? >> >> > >You really want to use XFS for an initrd?? > ><fx tests:> > ># dd if=/dev/zero of=disk bs=1024 count=8192 ># mkfs.xfs disk ># mount -oloop disk /mnt ># df /mnt >Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on >/root/disk 3392 32 3360 1% /mnt > >OK you could tune that up a bit but I think ext2 is more approriate for an >initrd and the ext2 utils don't take up /that/ much space: probably much less >than your XFS journals in fact :-) > >patrick > > >_______________________________________________ >linux-lvm mailing list >linux-lvm@sistina.com >http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm >read the LVM HOW-TO at http://www.sistina.com/lvm/Pages/howto.html > > > Hello, I use "romfs" for the 'initrd" it take less place in the kernel than "ext2" (I use "reiserfs" for "normal" filesystems), the only problem is that "romfs" is a read only filesytem but you can use the "tmpfs" like this in your "linuxrc" script: #!/bin/sh mount -t tmpfs none /etc mount -t proc none /proc echo "Scanning for Volume Group..." /sbin/vgscan echo "Activating 'root' Volume Group" /sbin/vgchange -a y /dev/vgroot umount /proc umount /etc I use the "nash" shell from redhat, it take few place and have builtin the mount/umount commands. The LVM is compiled in the kernel and I have these files in my "initrd": /bin/nash /bin/sh -> nash /lib/ld-linux.so.2 /lib/libc.so.6 /lib/liblvm-10.so.1 /sbin/vgchange /sbin/vgscan Best regards. Francis _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@sistina.com http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://www.sistina.com/lvm/Pages/howto.html
