Re: [D-I] Supporting 2.6.14 kernels in base-installer

[Thiemo Seufer <ths@networkno.de>]

Sven Luther wrote:
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> > 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's freed on umount, AFAIK.


Thiemo