Package: initrd-tools Version: 0.1.74 Severity: normal After upgrading to a 2.6 kernel, I found a lot more modules loaded, including what seemed to be every filesystem module. It seems that initrd-tools load every existing fs module, instead of only the one used by the root filesystem. Some of these modules are quite large. Here's the output from lsmod after booting with /bin/sh as init and running /etc/rcS.d/S02mountvirtfs:
Module Size Used by xfs 585628 0 jfs 201156 0 nls_base 8672 1 jfs reiserfs 333368 0 ext2 65220 1 ext3 130736 0 jbd 71576 1 ext3 mbcache 10116 1 ext3 ide_disk 27072 3 unix 31992 232 Please detect the root filesystem type and load only that filesystem module. -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: powerpc (ppc) Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-powerpc Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C Versions of packages initrd-tools depends on: ii coreutils [fileutils] 5.2.1-2 The GNU core utilities ii cpio 2.5-1.1 GNU cpio -- a program to manage ar ii cramfsprogs 1.1-6 Tools for CramFs (Compressed ROM F ii dash 0.5.1-3 The Debian Almquist Shell ii fileutils 5.2.1-2 The GNU file management utilities ii util-linux 2.12-7 Miscellaneous system utilities -- no debconf information
