initrd question

[John Reiser]

Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> "Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones at redhat.com> wrote:

>> But I don't understand why we don't just put every possible block
>> device driver / LVM / crypto module / etc. into the initrd.

> unpacking the initrd in the kernel takes real time. Easily a second
> for a "really big" initrd as you're proposing...

Build-in 'cloop' or other "transparent" filesystem compression,
and use it for initrd.  Then the unpacking would take only as long
as the needed drivers, plus the relevant directory structure.

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