On 3 Nov 2002, Gordon Messmer wrote: > On Sun, 2002-11-03 at 08:34, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > > if it's convenient, why bother having to make an initrd at all? > > since you're building a new kernel, you might as well just build > > ext3 support into the kernel proper. then you can dispense with > > this whole mkinitrd business. > > > > frankly, i'm still puzzled why red hat doesn't do that in the first > > place. i've heard the argument that it's not done since red hat > > considers ext3 to still be "experimental". > > I don't think that's correct... this is what i've been told directly from at least one person at red hat. > I believe the reason is that the kernel image has a maximum size; > everything that can be a module is so that the kernel doesn't overflow > that size. i don't buy this since, if i can rebuild a kernel and add ext3 directly to it, then i can't be exceeding that (hypothetical) maximum size, can i? rday -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
