On 21/08/14 19:53, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Out of curiosity: maybe this could have been done for wheezy in order to > avoid having to tweak the initrd size several times? At the time of the freeze, the tmpfs code in wheezy kernels contained a warning that it might not be stable yet, but is removed now. It was only a few months ago that we discussed tmpfs as a solution to this problem. And I personally wouldn't have known enough in 2012 about how d-i works, to know which directories to use it for. The initrds still must be sized carefully, to leave enough space for udebs to be installed in the d-i root, plus some margin of safety, but not waste so much space that low-memory systems can't use it. (And kfreebsd-i386 has some maximum initrd size too). I looked into this while testing the patch for this bug, and got some approximate numbers. They're OK but could do with being shrunk a little bit now. I'll open a separate bug for that, I hope sometime next month is not too late (this change must happen after the number and size of udebs has stabilised - we do still have more than 10 weeks until freeze though). Regards, -- Steven Chamberlain steven@pyro.eu.org
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