Re: initrd filesystem types/sizes

[Tim Riker <Tim@Rikers.org>]

from 2.2.18pre21 with cramfs patch (links are still broken):

timr@localhost:/lib/modules/2.2.18pre21/fs$ ls -l
total 524
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root        27057 Jan 23 22:42 cramfs.o
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root        41336 Jan 23 22:42 fat.o
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root        32516 Jan 23 22:42 minix.o
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root        94164 Jan 23 22:42 nfs.o
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root         5280 Jan 23 22:42 nls_cp437.o
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root         3568 Jan 23 22:42 nls_iso8859-1.o
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root         6877 Jan 23 22:42 romfs.o
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root        14874 Jan 23 22:42 vfat.o

remember that vfat needs fat.

Glenn McGrath wrote:
> 
> By the looks of it romfs is the clear winner for space savings.
> 
> 180483 initrd.cram.gz
> 161209 initrd.iso.gz
> 161023 initrd.ext2.gz
> 160621 initrd.minix.gz
> 159622 initrd.rom.gz
> 
> romfs adds about 4kB to the kernel when built in
> cramfs adds ?
> 
> the initrd filesystem will have to be builtin, which will be smaller
> than module size, so these are only usefull for relative comparison to
> other modules.
> 44599 ext2.o
> 30358 minix.o
> 24729 isofs.o
> 
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