Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 30 Oct 2002 03:41:49 -0500 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: Abbott and Costello meet Crunch Time -- Penultimate 2.5 merge candidate list. |
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Dave Cinege wrote:
>On Wednesday 30 October 2002 2:40, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > > >>untar - cpio is better. >> >> > >CPIO is commonly used and supported by NO ONE. (rpm, whoppee) >Kernels even come tar'ed. KISS.... > Irrelevant to this problem. cpio unpack code is smaller, and its format allows easy and painless concatenation.
>>initrd - 99% moved out of the kernel >> >> > >Great...you just killed the high level embedded linux market, and >the ability to play boot games from GRUB. (Network, etc) >Initrd is a good **OPTION* to have to fall back on... > Correct -- and after the initramfs merge, initrd behavior will be completely unchanged.
>>do_mounts - moved out of the kernel completely >> >> > >And he's willing to completely purge initrd and do_mounts NOW??? > Nothing is being purged. Things are being moved to userspace, making the kernel smaller and less bloated. The kernel's behavior to the end user is 100% unchanged.
>>initramfs - should be ready for Linus in the next day or so. >> >> > >Fire away with the 100K+ bloated POS. I'm backwards compatible, >could easily add 'linked kernel image' support, and only increase >the current code by 20K. > initramfs decreases the kernel size by a load, thank you very much.
Further, any initrd solution is bloated -- you are using a ram disk and disk-based filesystem, the sum of which equates to ramfs -- with additional wasted memory for filesystem and ramdisk overhead.
Jeff
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