mkinitrd troubles -- needs "sync"?

[Ralf Ertzinger]

Hi.

Matthew Miller <mattdm at mattdm.org> wrote:

> I am fairly frequently running into a problem where mkinitrd generates
> empty images. (They're about 12k, with no contents.) I can find no rhyme
> or reason to when this fails, and if you give -v, everything _looks_ to
> be fine -- but sometimes it isn't.

Would that be ext2 style initrd files or cpio style initrd files?

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