initrd question
Jeremy Katz
katzj at redhat.com
Mon Mar 2 03:19:03 UTC 2009
On Saturday, February 28 2009, Richard W.M. Jones said:
> But I don't understand why we don't just put every possible block
> device driver / LVM / crypto module / etc. into the initrd. The
> ramdisk is discarded as soon as the root filesystem is mounted, so at
> most we're saving a few kilobytes of disk space. At the same time,
> mkinitrd is massively more complicated than it really needs to be, and
> initrd images are non-portable between machines[*].
Yes, this is because of a lot of historical reasons that really aren't
worth the time it'd take to go through them. Work on dracut will
hopefully lead to changes/improvements here, but it's not going to be ready
in time for F11. Hopefully F12, though
Jeremy
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