On dim, 2005-11-13 at 22:49 +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > > FWIW, Ubuntu's install defaults to 'most' mode on the grounds that for > > most systems (not lowmem, not oldworld ppc, not netboot) there's no harm > > in having a larger initramfs (approx 5 meg on disk, 40meg in memory). > > A bit over 7MB on powerpc, i think. -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6413337 2005-10-13 13:09 initrd.img-2.6.12-9-powerpc64-smp
This is on powerpc64. My ppc32 system isn't online at the moment, but I'd expect it to be a bit less. > > The upside is that the initramfs created should be more or less > > identical for every system and is resilient against people moving the > > drive from one machine to the other, doing perfect copies (using ghost, > > dd, or whatnot), or using an already generated initramfs to recover > > broken systems on other machines. > > > > I'd argue for keeping that mode as default if possible because there > > isn't any benefit to the smaller initramfs in 95% of cases, and it > > increases the risk of a non-booting system. > > I wonder about one thing though, since this is basically a ramdisk, once the > boot is over, what happens to the memory used to hold it ? It gets freed as part of run-init, which goes through and rm's everything on the ramdisk to cause it to be returned to the system. Tks, Jeff Bailey -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
