Hi there! On Thu, 13 Oct 2011 14:15:43 +0200, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Thu, 2011-10-13 at 11:19 +0200, Luca Capello wrote: >> On Wed, 12 Oct 2011 21:24:33 +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: >> > The Debian initramfs of my sid system is 10 MB, while the one from my >> > RHEL 6.1 servers is 12 MB. So there is no big difference here. >> >> I checked my systems and found out something strange about initrd sizes, >> all with MODULES=most in /etc/initramfs-tools/initramfs.conf: [...] >> On my sid, using MODULES=dep I get 4062599 for 3.1.0-rc7-amd64, which is >> practically no different from MODULES=most. Considering that my sid is >> full-disk encrypted, there is something odd, here. > > I think you're mistaken about those last few. MODULES=most still > results in a ~10 MB initramfs on x86.
This is exactly why I updated my initrd for 3.1.0-rc7-amd64 before
posting the results above and I still get the same number if I create a
new one. I finally found the problem:
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root@gismo:/boot# cat /etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d/driver-policy
# Driver inclusion policy selected during installation
# Note: this setting overrides the value set in the file
# /etc/initramfs-tools/initramfs.conf
MODULES=dep
root@gismo:/boot#
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Indeed I was not aware that /e/i-t/conf.d/ options take precedence over
/e/i-t/initramfs.conf. From `man initramfs.conf` (which BTW erroneously
refers to /etc/mkinitramfs):
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DESCRIPTION
[...]
Configuration options can be broken out into configuration
snippets and placed in individual files in the
/etc/mkinitramfs/conf.d directory. Files in this directory
are always read after the main configuration file, so you
can override the settings in the main config file without
editing it directly.
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Thx, bye,
Gismo / Luca
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