* Roger Shimizu [2016-01-06 01:01]:
> I suggest it's better to inform the following in NEWS:
The note I was going to add to release-notes would be QNAP specific
(not Orion) since they only have 4 MB flash for the ramdisk.
But if initramfs-tools implements the "auto" option Ben mentioned,
this wo
On Mon, Jan 4, 2016 at 3:58 AM, Martin Michlmayr wrote:
> It goes from about 1 minute to 2 minutes and 20 seconds (without running
> flash-kernel) which is a huge increase percentage wise but a minute more
> is imho not a big deal, especially if it means avoiding troubles because
> the ramdisk doe
* Roger Shimizu [2016-01-04 00:54]:
> Size of initrd is always an issue on embedded platform. Surely XZ can
> extremely reduce the size, however as I remember, it takes MUCH more
> time to finish update-initramfs command.
>
> Did you evaluate how long does it take to generate one initramfs image
On Mon, Jan 04, 2016 at 01:21:49AM +0900, Roger Shimizu wrote:
> I don't worry about memory usage because, according to xz's manpage,
> it simply can be solved by adding 'export
> XZ_DEFAULTS=--memlimit=64MiB"' (or 32MiB or even lower based on your
> box's spec) to your ~/.bashrc.
Could do the job
On Sun, Jan 03, 2016 at 11:04:22AM -0500, Alan Corey wrote:
> What about the RAM usage? I can't even use it often on my devio.us
> account because there's shared RAM with other users. Seems like an
> embedded system might have a problem with that too.
Well good question. Seems for max compressi
On Mon, Jan 4, 2016 at 1:04 AM, Alan Corey wrote:
> What about the RAM usage? I can't even use it often on my devio.us
> account because there's shared RAM with other users. Seems like an
> embedded system might have a problem with that too.
I don't worry about memory usage because, according t
What about the RAM usage? I can't even use it often on my devio.us
account because there's shared RAM with other users. Seems like an
embedded system might have a problem with that too.
On 1/3/16, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 04, 2016 at 12:54:11AM +0900, Roger Shimizu wrote:
>> Size o
On Mon, Jan 04, 2016 at 12:54:11AM +0900, Roger Shimizu wrote:
> Size of initrd is always an issue on embedded platform. Surely XZ can
> extremely reduce the size, however as I remember, it takes MUCH more
> time to finish update-initramfs command.
>
> Did you evaluate how long does it take to gen
> Any objections/feedback?
>
> I'm wondering if there are other devices with the same issue.
> Unfortunately, I cannot remember if there's a ramdisk limit for the HP
> mv2120 but I don't think so. The various plug devices boot from disk
> and the newer QNAP devices have 9 MB space for the ramdisk.
* Ian Campbell [2016-01-01 17:46]:
> > How about custom kernels, though?
>
> In general wouldn't we say that people who want to use those are
> responsible for ensuring that it meets the requirements of the rest of
> the system and paying attention to changelog+NEWS etc?
I agree with Ian, althou
On Fri, 2016-01-01 at 13:03 +, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Fri, 2016-01-01 at 12:22 +, Ian Campbell wrote:
> > On Thu, 2015-12-31 at 10:50 -0800, Martin Michlmayr wrote:
> > >
> > > [...]
> > > CONFIG_RD_XZ is enabled at least in jessie and stretch.
> > >
> > > Any objections/feedback?
> >
On Fri, 2016-01-01 at 12:22 +, Ian Campbell wrote:
> On Thu, 2015-12-31 at 10:50 -0800, Martin Michlmayr wrote:
> >
> > [...]
> > CONFIG_RD_XZ is enabled at least in jessie and stretch.
> >
> > Any objections/feedback?
>
> Given the above I wonder if we should consider making XZ the default
On Thu, 2015-12-31 at 10:50 -0800, Martin Michlmayr wrote:
>
> [...]
> CONFIG_RD_XZ is enabled at least in jessie and stretch.
>
> Any objections/feedback?
Given the above I wonder if we should consider making XZ the default in
initramfs-tools, if CONFIG_RD_XZ was enabled in Wheezy I'd say this
On 12/31/15 10:50 AM, Martin Michlmayr wrote:
I've seen some reports that the initramfs doesn't fit in flash on QNAP
[deletia]
2) Create this config file by default in d-i (on these devices).
Any objections/feedback?
Nothing negative. This has been a recurring problem. Seems like a
sm
I've seen some reports that the initramfs doesn't fit in flash on QNAP
TS-109/TS-209 and TS-409 when using LVM or RAID. On my TS-109 without
LVM or RAID, I have:
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4028050 Dec 31 10:04 initrd.img-4.4.0-rc6-orion5x
The flash partition is 4 MB, so this is 96%. This is already w
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