Sven Luther wrote: [snip] > > The upside is that the initramfs created should be more or less > > identical for every system and is resilient against people moving the > > drive from one machine to the other, doing perfect copies (using ghost, > > dd, or whatnot), or using an already generated initramfs to recover > > broken systems on other machines. > > > > I'd argue for keeping that mode as default if possible because there > > isn't any benefit to the smaller initramfs in 95% of cases, and it > > increases the risk of a non-booting system. > > I wonder about one thing though, since this is basically a ramdisk, once the > boot is over, what happens to the memory used to hold it ?
It's freed on umount, AFAIK. Thiemo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]