On 22/07/2024 at 04:39, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
Jonathan Kamens <j...@kamens.us> (2024-07-21):
Something changed recently in testing which caused the size of my
initrd to go up A Lot, e.g., on one computer from 70MB to 248MB.
(...)
Have you tried comparing before/after to see where this increase comes
from? Checking the compression settings would also make sense.
The significant initramfs size increase is caused by the combination of
the new package firmware-nvidia-graphics, which provides firmware for
Nvidia GPUs (injected by plymouth) and contains directory symlinks, and
initramsf-tools < 0.143 which converts directory symlinks into real
directories and duplicate their contents. It seems that initramfs-tools
0.143, currently in experimental, fixes the issue.
Other related bug reports:
<https://bugs.debian.org/1076582>
<https://bugs.debian.org/1076539>
<https://bugs.debian.org/972396>
