On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 09:54:49PM -0500, Marc Auslander wrote: > The problem is operator (that's me) stupidity. > > I have an overloaded find so I can say find foo and have it mean > find . -name foo -print > > mkinitramfs uses find . | cpio to build the initrd.img > ooh, interesting. I wouldn't have seen that coming from a mile away. HOw do you have that overloading set up? and how does mkinitramfs use find. If it uses the full path, then you could alias find to a "my_find_script.sh" and still get your desired performance without interfering with well written utils that use find. > > I've wasted my time - i deserve it - and your time - you don't. > > Sorry. > not at all... this is how we learn. Now we, and everyone reading this thread, know that this can happen.... IT's another symptom to be aware of. An initrd that comes out too small might be because it just doesn't find the modules properly. A
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