Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 17 Feb 2010 14:26:20 -0800 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: Linux mdadm superblock question. |
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On 02/17/2010 10:46 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > well at the moment it takes less than two seconds until init takes over. > > Adding .5 seconds is a lot. And loading the initrd and changing root isn't > free either, true? > > I remember well all the noise in the past about making linux booting faster. > So why slow it down with an initrd - especially if you can do without? >
Note that an extremely lightweight initramfs can quite possibly be faster than doing it in the kernel, just because userspace is so much less constrained. I was hoping klibc would catch on for this stuff, but it hasn't as much as I'd like.
-hpa
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