On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 04:03:03AM +0100, Svetoslav Slavtchev wrote:
By the way, should we switch to ROM FS or Minix FS for initrd in order
to gain some space ?
first we've to hack mkinitrd,
and i'm not sure how much will we gain,
besides the initrd needs to be writable for lvm setup, so if we use
genromfs we need an initrd that mounts a tmpfs over /etc and copies
files there. And initrd is too complex already.
At the moment mkinitrd calculates the size of the image by
100k + size_of_all_files + 5m (if lvm)
My mkinitrd uses 100k + size_of_all_files + size of inodes + 1m (if lvm2)
+ 5m (if lvm1) and if you are not using devfs wants to write to /dev as
well.
me thinks, better get Andrey's module-init-tools
with gziiped module support & compress the modules
this would be easier to implement.
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