On Thu, 2011-10-13 at 11:19 +0200, Luca Capello wrote: > Hi there! > > On Wed, 12 Oct 2011 21:24:33 +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > > On Oct 12, Reinhard Tartler <siretart@debian.org> wrote: > > > >> On the other hand, Debian has chosen against that and relies on klibc, > >> ipconfig, etc. for early userspace and thus, the initramfs. I suspect > >> the main motivations behind these decisions were portability and size > >> (please correct me and add references). > > The Debian initramfs of my sid system is 10 MB, while the one from my > > RHEL 6.1 servers is 12 MB. So there is no big difference here. > > I checked my systems and found out something strange about initrd sizes, > all with MODULES=most in /etc/initramfs-tools/initramfs.conf: > > |--------------+------------------+-------------| > | distribution | kernel | initrd size | > |--------------+------------------+-------------| > | lenny | 2.6.26-2-orion5x | 3287928 | > | | 2.6.26-2-amd64 | 7766596 | > | | 2.6.26-2-amd64 | 7787529 | > | | 2.6.26-1-686 | 7626120 | > | | 2.6.26-2-686 | 7629923 | > | | 2.6.26-2-686 | 7635738 | > | squeeze | 2.6.32-5-amd64 | 9245071 | > | | 2.6.32-5-amd64 | 9256338 | > | | 2.6.32-5-amd64 | 9260727 | > | | 2.6.32-5-amd64 | 9919173 | > | | 2.6.32-5-amd64 | 10506190 | > | | 2.6.32-5-686 | 10509240 | > | | 2.6.39-2-amd64 | 10680155 | > | | 3.0.0-1-amd64 | 10858550 | > | sid | 3.0.0-2-amd64 | 4057637 | > | | 3.1.0-rc4-amd64 | 4120746 | > | | 3.1.0-rc7-amd64 | 4121794 | > |--------------+------------------+-------------| > > On my sid, using MODULES=dep I get 4062599 for 3.1.0-rc7-amd64, which is > practically no different from MODULES=most. Considering that my sid is > full-disk encrypted, there is something odd, here. I think you're mistaken about those last few. MODULES=most still results in a ~10 MB initramfs on x86. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Quantity is no substitute for quality, but it's the only one we've got.
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