> On Saturday 01 November 2003 06:03, Svetoslav Slavtchev wrote: > > > > all FS's built in ? why that ? > > > > > > Oops, there is no reason to do that, I've now compiled ext3, jbd, > > > ReiserFS, jfs and xfs as modules in -2mdk. > > > ext2 is still built-in because our initrd image is ext2. > > > By the way, should we switch to ROM FS or Minix FS for initrd in order > > > to gain some space ? > > > > > > my -2mdk rpms are available here : > > > http://compil.mandrake.org/~blino/kernel-2.6/ > > > > first we've to hack mkinitrd, > > and i'm not sure how much will we gain, > > > > Well, adding support for alternate FS to mkinitrd is trivial, it is rather > > administrative consideration - you need utilities for this available i.e. > proper Requires: etc. > > > besides initramfs is always in, > > (but it's pretty experimental stuff yet, > > and i haven't heard of successfull initrd's using it) > > probably better wait for it > > > > initramfs as implemented currently must be done at kernel build time which > > makes it rather useless. It basically appends compressed cpio archives to > kernel. Frankly speaking I do not see any advantage in using it - both > initrd > and initramfs are initialized at the same time. > > The only remote advantage would be that initramfs does not require chroot > as > everything is unpacked into (mini-)root and thus using various programs > like > hotplug or modprobe is easier. I guess one can add support for initramfs > in > initrd image if needed then.
OK so what options do we have to reduce the kernel/ initrd size ? bzip compression? (last time i loocked the patches were against 2.5.59 :( ) compile with Os ? > > me thinks, better get Andrey's module-init-tools > > with gziiped module support & compress the modules > > > > But initrd is already built compressed it does not require > module-init-tools > support (the whole image is compressed). > > I updated both on usual place (http://supermount-ng.sf.net/mdk-25/). > hotplug > is updated to CVS code, quite a lot of patches are already integrated. I'd > > like to enable PCI coldplug but it apparently requires initscripts tuning > (at > least ALSA, possibly others, USB is not actually an issue with hotplug). i don't think enabling PCI cold pug is a good idea it might try to load the correct fb driver (which might currently be broken :( also it'll load the drivers for any hardware found (do you mentioned alsa for that reason?) but do we need this, we already have modprobe.[conf, preload, devfs?] > > module-init-tools now depends on kernel version - I removed all static > aliases > for which MODULE_ALIAS is defined based on test9. Future versions may add > more aliases. Ideally modrobe.default should be near empty. This means > module-init-tools should contain Conflict: kernel-2.6 < 2.6.0-test9 but as > I > am not using kernel RPM I am not sure about proper versioning. Svetoslav, > would you get a look? we seem to use 0.[pre/test] for not final kernels :-) (kernel-2.6-2.6.0-0.test9.2mdk for example ) svetljo -- NEU F�R ALLE - GMX MediaCenter - f�r Fotos, Musik, Dateien... Fotoalbum, File Sharing, MMS, Multimedia-Gru�, GMX FotoService Jetzt kostenlos anmelden unter http://www.gmx.net +++ GMX - die erste Adresse f�r Mail, Message, More! +++
