Mark Knecht wrote:
On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 8:57 AM, Dale<rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote:
Canek Peláez Valdés wrote:
On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 5:29 AM, Pandu Poluan<pa...@poluan.info> wrote:
Speaking of fsck, didn't someone lamented the fact that fsck can no
longer
be statically linked, thus making initr* 'blew up' in size?
When more and more utilities go the non-statically-linked way...
congratulations! You now have an initr* that's practically a cpio-ized
version of /
Now, common: that's an exaggeration. My dracut generated initramfs
(with systemd, plymouth, udev, and I don't remember what many things
more) is 5 Mb. That's a little less than my several-gigabytes /.
Regards.
Give it time. Something will need /home on the root partition next. Like
someone else posted, we are headed towards windows land with this. I won't
be surprised if /boot will have to be on / next too.
Dale
Not the case IMO. My read of all this stuff is that within a few
months we'll be back to allowing /usr to be anywhere without an
initramfs or initramfs generated automagically such that you hardly
know it's there.
While I'm no expert on initramfs technology, it's not large. Mine is
only a bit larger than 2MB. Likely it doesn't contain whatever is
required to deal with systemd/udev but it's not like it's much disk
space...
c2stable ~ # ls -al /boot/my-initramfs.cpio.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2296212 Jan 1 2011 /boot/my-initramfs.cpio.gz
c2stable ~ #
- Mark
I hope you are right about sanity returning. I have been wrong before
but I have also been right too. I picture this going bad for a lot of
people and the dev getting a lot of emails about it. Someone is going
to try rebooting and have a jaw dropping experience. One that comes to
mind is hal but there are others that went south too.
Dale
:-) :-)
